CUX2 deficiency causes facilitation of excitatory synaptic transmission onto hippocampus and increased seizure susceptibility to kainate

Abstract CUX2 gene encodes a transcription factor that controls neuronal proliferation, dendrite branching and synapse formation, locating at the epilepsy-associated chromosomal region 12q24 that we previously identified by a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in Japanese population. A CUX2 recurr...

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Main Authors: Toshimitsu Suzuki, Tetsuya Tatsukawa, Genki Sudo, Caroline Delandre, Yun Jin Pai, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Matthieu Raveau, Atsushi Shimohata, Iori Ohmori, Shin-ichiro Hamano, Kazuhiro Haginoya, Mitsugu Uematsu, Yukitoshi Takahashi, Masafumi Morimoto, Shinji Fujimoto, Hitoshi Osaka, Hirokazu Oguni, Makiko Osawa, Atsushi Ishii, Shinichi Hirose, Sunao Kaneko, Yushi Inoue, Adrian Walton Moore, Kazuhiro Yamakawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10715-w