Title : A novel muscle sodium channel mutation causes painful congenital myotonia.

Pub. Date : 1997 Nov

PMID : 9392583






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1 Mutations in the skeletal muscle voltage-gated sodium channel alpha-subunit gene (SCN4A) have been associated with a spectrum of inherited nondystrophic myotonias and periodic paralyses. Sodium sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 4 Homo sapiens
2 A novel SCN4A mutation causing the replacement of Val445 in the sixth transmembrane segment of domain 1 with methionine was discovered in all affected individuals and is the likely genetic basis for the syndrome. Methionine sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 4 Homo sapiens