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- Title
Complete Loss of the Cytoplasmic Carboxyl Terminus of the KCNQ2 Potassium Channel: A Novel Mutation in a Large Czech Pedigree with Benign Neonatal Convulsions or Other Epileptic Phenotypes.
- Authors
Pereira, Sandrine; Roll, Patrice; Krizova, Jitka; Genton, Pierre; Brazdil, Milan; Kuba, Robert; Cau, Pierre; Rektor, Ivan; Szepetowski, Pierre
- Abstract
Purpose: Benign neonatal familial convulsions (BNFCs) represent a rare epileptic disorder with autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. To date, two voltage-gated potassium (K+) channel genes, KCNQ2 and KCNQ3, have been identified in typical BNFC families. The study of new pedigrees may help detect new mutations and define genotype–phenotype correlations. Methods: A large Czech family was detected in which BNFC was inherited together with a broad range of various nonneonatal epileptic phenotypes. Genetic linkage study and direct mutation analysis were performed to find the disease-causing mutation. Results: In seven patients with BNFCs and no recurrence of seizures, a novel two-base-pair deletion (1369del2) was identified within the coding sequence of the KCNQ2 gene. The mutation led to a putative protein that lacked nearly all its carboxyl terminus part, which plays a critical role for the accurate expression of the functional K+ channels. Three patients with generalized tonic–clonic seizures (GTCSs), all without any history of BNFCs, also displayed 1369del2. Three other patients with other idiopathic epileptic phenotypes did not have the mutation. Conclusions: A novel 2-bp deletion within the coding sequence of the potassium channel KCNQ2 gene was detected in patients from a large and heterogeneous family with BNFCs or non-BNFC seizures.
- Subjects
NEUROLOGICAL disorders; GENETICS; EPILEPSY; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; GENETIC polymorphisms; PHENOTYPES
- Publication
Epilepsia (Series 4), 2004, Vol 45, Issue 4, p384
- ISSN
0013-9580
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.47703.x