Mutations in SLC12A5 in epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

The potassium-chloride co-transporter KCC2, encoded by SLC12A5, plays a fundamental role in fast synaptic inhibition by maintaining a hyperpolarizing gradient for chloride ions. KCC2 dysfunction has been implicated in human epilepsy, but to date, no monogenic KCC2-related epilepsy disorders have bee...

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Main Authors: Stödberg, Tommy, McTague, Amy, Ruiz, Arnaud J., Hirata, Hiromi, Zhen, Juan, Long, Philip, Farabella, Irene, Meyer, Esther, Kawahara, Atsuo, Vassallo, Grace, Stivaros, Stavros M., Bjursell, Magnus K., Stranneheim, Henrik, Tigerschiöld, Stephanie, Persson, Bengt, Bangash, Iftikhar, Das, Krishna, Hughes, Deborah, Lesko, Nicole, Lundeberg, Joakim, Scott, Rod C., Poduri, Annapurna, Scheffer, Ingrid E., Smith, Holly, Gissen, Paul, Schorge, Stephanie, Reith, Maarten E. A., Topf, Maya, Kullmann, Dimitri M., Harvey, Robert J., Wedell, Anna, Kurian, Manju A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569694/