KCNQ Potassium Channels
"KCNQ Potassium Channels" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of delayed rectifier voltage-gated potassium channels that share homology with their founding member, KCNQ1 PROTEIN. KCNQ potassium channels have been implicated in a variety of diseases including LONG QT SYNDROME; DEAFNESS; and EPILEPSY.
| Descriptor ID |
D051656
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.157.530.400.600.900.124.249 D12.776.543.550.425.750.900.124.249 D12.776.543.585.400.750.900.124.249
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| Concept/Terms |
KCNQ Potassium Channels- KCNQ Potassium Channels
- Potassium Channels, KCNQ
- KvLQT Potassium Channels
- Potassium Channels, KvLQT
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Talebizadeh Z, Kelley PM, Askew JW, Beisel KW, Smith SD. Novel mutation in the KCNQ4 gene in a large kindred with dominant progressive hearing loss. Hum Mutat. 1999; 14(6):493-501.