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EFHC1
Introduction
EF-hand domain-containing protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EFHC1 gene.[1]
EFHC1 variants initially thought to be pathogenic in epilepsy were found in unaffected controls of the same ancestry so that this is not a likely epilepsy gene. [2]
References
References
- ↑ “Entrez Gene: EFHC1 EF-hand domain (C-terminal) containing 1”.
- ↑ Subaran RL, Conte JM, Stewart WC, Greenberg DA (2015). “Pathogenic EFHC1 mutations are tolerated in healthy individuals dependent on reported ancestry”. Epilepsia. 56 (2): 188–94. doi:10.1111/epi.12864. PMC 4354299. PMID 25489633.
Further reading
Further reading
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- Liu AW, Delgado-Escueta AV, Gee MN, et al. (1996). “Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in chromosome 6p12-p11: locus heterogeneity and recombinations”. Am. J. Med. Genet. 63 (3): 438–46. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960614)63:3<438::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-N. PMID 8737649.
- Sander T, Bockenkamp B, Hildmann T, et al. (1997). “Refined mapping of the epilepsy susceptibility locus EJM1 on chromosome 6”. Neurology. 49 (3): 842–7. doi:10.1212/wnl.49.3.842. PMID 9305351.
- Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). “Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5′-end-enriched cDNA library”. Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
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- Suzuki T, Delgado-Escueta AV, Aguan K, et al. (2004). “Mutations in EFHC1 cause juvenile myoclonic epilepsy”. Nat. Genet. 36 (8): 842–9. doi:10.1038/ng1393. PMID 15258581.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). “The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)”. Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
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- Norberg A, Forsgren L, Holmberg D, Holmberg M (2006). “Exclusion of the juvenile myoclonic epilepsy gene EFHC1 as the cause of migraine on chromosome 6, but association to two rare polymorphisms in MEP1A and RHAG”. Neurosci. Lett. 396 (2): 137–42. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2005.11.039. PMID 16378686.
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- Pinto D, Louwaars S, Westland B, et al. (2006). “Heterogeneity at the JME 6p11-12 locus: absence of mutations in the EFHC1 gene in linked Dutch families”. Epilepsia. 47 (10): 1743–6. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00676.x. PMID 17054699.
- Stogmann E, Lichtner P, Baumgartner C, et al. (2007). “Idiopathic generalized epilepsy phenotypes associated with different EFHC1 mutations”. Neurology. 67 (11): 2029–31. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000250254.67042.1b. PMID 17159113.
- Annesi F, Gambardella A, Michelucci R, et al. (2007). “Mutational analysis of EFHC1 gene in Italian families with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy”. Epilepsia. 48 (9): 1686–90. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01173.x. PMID 17634063.