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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2009
Guy A. Rouleau, Montreal, CA;
Ronald G. Lafrenière, Verdun, CA;
Daniel Rochefort, Laval, CA;
McGill University, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
The present invention relates to epilepsy. More particularly, the present invention relates to idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) and to the identification of three genes mapping to chromosome 2, which show mutations in patients with epilepsy. The invention further relates to nucleic acid sequences, and protein sequences of these loci (SCNA) and to the use thereof to assess, diagnose, prognose or treat epilepsy, to predict an epileptic individual's response to medication and to identify agents which modulate the function of the SCNA. The invention also provides screening assays using SCN1A, SCN2A and/or SCN3A which can identify compounds which have therapeutic benefit for epilepsy and related neurological disorders.