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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-13
pubmed:abstractText
Recent studies point to an involvement of kinases and phosphatases in ionic channel regulation and in physiopathologic mechanisms leading to convulsive disorders. Acid phosphatase locus 1 (ACP1), also named cytosolic low molecular weight phosphotyrosine phosphatase, is a highly polymorphic phosphatase that is especially abundant in the central nervous system and is known to be involved in several signal transduction pathways. We studied ACP1 in 122 children with idiopathic generalized tonic-clonic seizures, 80 children with febrile convulsions, and 417 controls from the population of Rome. Low activity phenotypes of ACP1 (*A/*A and *A/*B) were found to be over-represented while high activity phenotypes (*C/*C and *B/*C) were under-represented in generalized seizures cases compared to controls (P < 0.005). No significant difference was observed between febrile convulsion cases and controls. These observations suggest a protective role of the high activity ACP1 phenotypes against seizures in children.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
159-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:articleTitle
Convulsive disorder and the genetics of signal transduction; a study of a low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase in a pediatric sample.
pubmed:affiliation
The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA.