[Based on the early age of presentation and the severity of the epilepsy reported for the majority of the seizure-positive cases it was concluded that SMEI/DS could be the epileptic encephalopathy associated with deletions within the 2q22.1-q33.3 region, due to haploinsuffiency of SCN1A and/or complete or partial deletion of other voltage-gated sodium channel genes caused by the aberration.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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