[HTML][HTML] Incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity: from clinical studies to population cohorts

R Kingdom, CF Wright - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The same genetic variant found in different individuals can cause a range of diverse
phenotypes, from no discernible clinical phenotype to severe disease, even among related …

Ion channels in genetic epilepsy: from genes and mechanisms to disease-targeted therapies

J Oyrer, S Maljevic, IE Scheffer, SF Berkovic… - Pharmacological …, 2018 - ASPET
Epilepsy is a common and serious neurologic disease with a strong genetic component.
Genetic studies have identified an increasing collection of disease-causing genes. The …

Re-engineering the adenine deaminase TadA-8e for efficient and specific CRISPR-based cytosine base editing

L Chen, B Zhu, G Ru, H Meng, Y Yan, M Hong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) efficiently generate precise C· G-to-T· A base conversions, but
the activation-induced cytidine deaminase/apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of long non-coding RNAs in mammalian nervous system development, plasticity, disease, and evolution

JA Briggs, EJ Wolvetang, JS Mattick, JL Rinn, G Barry - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Only relatively recently has it become clear that mammalian genomes encode tens of
thousands of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). A striking 40% of these are expressed …

Current practice in diagnostic genetic testing of the epilepsies

I Krey, K Platzer, A Esterhuizen, SF Berkovic… - Epileptic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsy genetics is a rapidly developing field, in which novel disease‐associated genes,
novel mechanisms associated with epilepsy, and precision medicine approaches are …

4-Aminopyridine is a promising treatment option for patients with gain-of-function KCNA2-encephalopathy

UBS Hedrich, S Lauxmann, M Wolff… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies are devastating disorders characterized by
epilepsy, intellectual disability, and other neuropsychiatric symptoms, for which available …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing epilepsy genetics in the genomic era

CT Myers, HC Mefford - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Epilepsy is a group of disorders characterized by recurrent seizures, and is one of the most
common neurological conditions. The genetic basis of epilepsy is clear from epidemiological …

Comparative structural analysis of human Nav1.1 and Nav1.5 reveals mutational hotspots for sodium channelopathies

X Pan, Z Li, X Jin, Y Zhao, G Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Among the nine subtypes of human voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels, the brain and
cardiac isoforms, Nav1. 1 and Nav1. 5, each carry more than 400 missense mutations …

Dravet syndrome and its mimics: Beyond SCN1A

D Steel, JD Symonds, SM Zuberi, A Brunklaus - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
characterized by the onset of prolonged febrile and afebrile seizures in infancy, and evolving …

Overcoming the divide between ataxias and spastic paraplegias: shared phenotypes, genes, and pathways

M Synofzik, R Schüle - Movement Disorders, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Autosomal‐dominant spinocerebellar ataxias, autosomal‐recessive spinocerebellar ataxias,
and hereditary spastic paraplegias have traditionally been designated in separate …