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SUBMITTER: Phillips HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1234917 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Phillips H A HA Favre I I Kirkpatrick M M Zuberi S M SM Goudie D D Heron S E SE Scheffer I E IE Sutherland G R GR Berkovic S F SF Bertrand D D Mulley J C JC
American journal of human genetics 20001205 1
Autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE) is an uncommon, idiopathic partial epilepsy characterized by clusters of motor seizures occurring in sleep. We describe a mutation of the beta2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, effecting a V287M substitution within the M2 domain. The mutation, in an evolutionary conserved region of CHRNB2, is associated with ADNFLE in a Scottish family. Functional receptors with the V287M mutation are highly expressed in Xenopus oocytes ...[more]