1. Association analysis of the Arg220His variation of the human gene encoding the GABA δ subunit with idiopathic generalized epilepsy
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Armin Heils, Kirsten P. Lenzen, Anne Hempelmann, S. Lorenz, and Thomas Sander
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Genotype ,DNA Mutational Analysis ,Biology ,Arginine ,Idiopathic generalized epilepsy ,Epilepsy ,Gene Frequency ,Polymorphism (computer science) ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Missense mutation ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,Histidine ,GABRD ,Allele ,Allele frequency ,Retrospective Studies ,Genetics ,Chi-Square Distribution ,Polymorphism, Genetic ,Genetic Variation ,Exons ,Receptors, GABA-A ,medicine.disease ,Endocrinology ,Neurology ,Case-Control Studies ,biology.protein ,Epilepsy, Generalized ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy - Abstract
Purpose: Mutation analysis of the gene encoding the GABA δ subunit ( GABRD ) identified a common missense variation (c.659G>A; Arg220His) of which the His220 allele displayed decreased GABA A α 1 β 2 δ receptor current amplitudes. The present association study tested whether the functional GABRD His220 allele confers susceptibility to common syndromes of idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE). Methods: Five hundred and sixty two unrelated German IGE patients and 664 healthy population controls were genotyped for the c.659G>A polymorphism in exon 6 of the GABRD gene. Results: His220 allele frequencies did not differ significantly between IGE patients (2.3%) and the controls (2.8%; P =0.46). Likewise, no evidence for an allelic association was found with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy ( n =218; 2.8%; P =0.97) or idiopathic absence epilepsy ( n =260; 2.3%; P =0.56). Conclusion: Our results provide no evidence that the functional GABRD His220 allele mediates a substantial susceptibility effect to common IGE syndromes in the German population.
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- 2005