CACNA1H variants are not a cause of monogenic epilepsy.
Human Mutation
Calhoun, Jeffrey D JD; Huffman, Alexandra M AM; Bellinski, Irena I; Kinsley, Lisa L; Bachman, Elizabeth E; Gerard, Elizabeth E; Kearney, Jennifer A JA; Carvill, Gemma L GL
CaV 3.2 drives sustained burst-firing, which is critical for absence seizure propagation in reticular thalamic neurons.
Epilepsia
Cain, Stuart M SM; Tyson, John R JR; Choi, Hyun-Beom HB; Ko, Rebecca R; Lin, Paulo J C PJC; LeDue, Jeffrey M JM; Powell, Kim L KL; Bernier, Louis-Philippe LP; Rungta, Ravi L RL; Yang, Yi Y; Cullis, Pieter R PR; O'Brien, Terence J TJ; MacVicar, Brian A BA; Snutch, Terrance P TP
The Cacna1h mutation in the GAERS model of absence epilepsy enhances T-type Ca2+ currents by altering calnexin-dependent trafficking of Cav3.2 channels.
Scientific Reports
Proft, Juliane J; Rzhepetskyy, Yuriy Y; Lazniewska, Joanna J; Zhang, Fang-Xiong FX; Cain, Stuart M SM; Snutch, Terrance P TP; Zamponi, Gerald W GW; Weiss, Norbert N
Evaluating whole genome sequence data from the Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rat from Strasbourg and its related non-epileptic strain.
Plos One
Casillas-Espinosa, Pablo M PM; Powell, Kim L KL; Zhu, Mingfu M; Campbell, C Ryan CR; Maia, Jessica M JM; Ren, Zhong Z; Jones, Nigel C NC; O'Brien, Terence J TJ; Petrovski, Slavé S
A Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel point mutation has splice-variant-specific effects on function and segregates with seizure expression in a polygenic rat model of absence epilepsy.
The Journal Of Neuroscience : The Official Journal Of The Society For Neuroscience
Powell, Kim L KL; Cain, Stuart M SM; Ng, Caroline C; Sirdesai, Shreerang S; David, Laurence S LS; Kyi, Mervyn M; Garcia, Esperanza E; Tyson, John R JR; Reid, Christopher A CA; Bahlo, Melanie M; Foote, Simon J SJ; Snutch, Terrance P TP; O'Brien, Terence J TJ