A recurrent de novo mutation in KCNC1 causes progressive myoclonus epilepsy

Mikko Muona; Samuel F Berkovic; Leanne M Dibbens; Karen L Oliver; Snezana Maljevic; Marta A Bayly; Tarja Joensuu; Laura Canafoglia; Silvana Franceschetti; Roberto Michelucci; Salla Markkinen; Sarah E Heron; Michael S Hildebrand; Eva Andermann; Frederick Andermann; Antonio Gambardella; Paolo Tinuper; Laura Licchetta; Ingrid E Scheffer; Chiara Criscuolo; Alessandro Filla; Edoardo Ferlazzo; Jamil Ahmad; Adeel Ahmad; Betul Baykan; Edith Said; Meral Topcu; Patrizia Riguzzi; Mary D King; Cigdem Ozkara; Danielle M Andrade; Bernt A Engelsen; Arielle Crespel; Matthias Lindenau; Ebba Lohmann; Veronica Saletti; Joao Massano; Michael Privitera; Alberto J Espay; Birgit Kauffmann; Michael Duchowny; Rikke S Moller; Rachel Straussberg; Zaid Afawi; Bruria Ben-Zeev; Kaitlin E Samocha; Mark J Daly; Steven Petrou; Holger Lerche; Aarno Palotie; Anna-Elina Lehesjoki

Journal article

A recurrent de novo mutation in KCNC1 causes progressive myoclonus epilepsy

Mikko Muona, Samuel F Berkovic, Leanne M Dibbens, Karen L Oliver, Snezana Maljevic, Marta A Bayly, Tarja Joensuu, Laura Canafoglia, Silvana Franceschetti, Roberto Michelucci, Salla Markkinen, Sarah E Heron, Michael S Hildebrand, Eva Andermann, Frederick Andermann, Antonio Gambardella, Paolo Tinuper, Laura Licchetta, Ingrid E Scheffer, Chiara Criscuolo Show all

Nature Genetics | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1038/ng.3144

University of Melbourne Researchers

Steven Petrou Author Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Saul Mullen Author Medical Education

Ingrid Scheffer Author Medicine - Austin Health

Karen Oliver Broderick Author Medicine - Austin Health

Michael Hildebrand Author Medicine - Austin Health

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Folkhalsan Research Foundation (A.-E.L.), Academy of Finland grant 141549 (A.-E.L.), Wellcome Trust grants 089062 and 098051 (A.P.), European Commission Framework Programme 7 (FP7) project 201413 ENGAGE (A.P.), project 242167 SynSys (A.P.), Health-2010 projects 261433 BioSHare (A.P.) and project 261123 gEUVADIS (A.P.), Academy of Finland grants 251704 and 263401 (A.P.), the Sigrid Juselius Foundation (A.P.), US NIH grant RFA-HL-12-007 (A.P.), the Emil Aaltonen Foundation (M.M.), Epilepsiatutkimussaatio (M.M.), University of Helsinki Funds (M.M.), the Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine (M.M.), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia program grant 628952 (S.F.B., L.M.D. and I.E.S.), NHMRC Career Development Fellowship 1032603 (L.M.D.), NHMRC Early Career Fellowship 1016715 (S.E.H.), the German Network for Rare Diseases of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), IonNeurONet 01GM1105A (S. Maljevic and H.L.), the EuroEPINOMICS program of the European Science Foundation, German Research Foundation (DFG) grant Le1030/11-1 (H.L. and S. Maljevic), NHMRC program grant 400121 (S.P.) and NMHRC fellowship 1005050 (S.P.). The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (S.P.) is supported by government infrastructure funds from the state of Victoria.