Functional study of NIPA2 mutations identified from the patients with childhood absence epilepsy.

Recently many genetic mutations that are associated with epilepsy have been identified. The protein NIPA2 (non-imprinted in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome region protein 2) is a highly selective magnesium transporter encoded by the gene NIPA2 in which we have found three mutations (p.I178F, p.N244S...

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Main Authors: Han Xie, Yuehua Zhang, Pingping Zhang, Jingmin Wang, Ye Wu, Xiru Wu, Theoden Netoff, Yuwu Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4209971?pdf=render