An Inherited Nonsense R1645X Mutation in Neuronal Sodium Channel α1-Subunit Gene in a Turkish Patient with Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy

Abstract

Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) is a well-known catastrophic epileptic syndrome. Several mutations of the sodium channel alpha 1 subunit (SCN1A ) gene were reported in patients with SMEI. Most of the mutations were de novo. Inherited truncating mutations are very rare. Here a patient with a new nonsense mutation (c.4933 C>T; p.R1645X) of the gene is described. This mutation was inherited from the father who had only febrile seizures during childhood.

Key words

severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy - sodium channel alpha 1 subunit - inherited mutation - nonsense

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