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Early onset or syndromic epilepsy

Gene: KCNH8

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KCNH8 (potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily H member 8)
EnsemblGeneIds (GRCh38): ENSG00000183960
EnsemblGeneIds (GRCh37): ENSG00000183960
OMIM: 608260, Gene2Phenotype
KCNH8 is in 1 panel

1 review

Sarah Leigh (Genomics England Curator)

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Comment on publications: PMID: 39156922 was identified by the Genomics England Applied Machine Learning (ML) team in a Biocuration-ML project for identifying new gene-disease associations using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI techniques.
Created: 25 Mar 2025, 11:59 a.m. | Last Modified: 25 Mar 2025, 11:59 a.m.
Panel Version: 7.78
PMID: 39156922 reports two sibling from a consanguineous family who had familial progressive myoclonus epilepsy. Both of the sibling were homozygous for a KCNH8 variant (NM_144633.3:c.298T>C; p.Tyr100His) and a RTEL1 variant (NM_032957.5:c.691G>T; p.Asp231Tyr).
Sources: Literature
Created: 25 Mar 2025, 11:51 a.m.

Mode of inheritance
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Phenotypes
Familial Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy

Publications

Details

Mode of Inheritance
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Sources
  • Literature
Phenotypes
  • Familial Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy
OMIM
608260
Clinvar variants
Variants in KCNH8
Penetrance
None
Publications
Panels with this gene

History Filter Activity

25 Mar 2025, Gel status: 1

Set publications

Sarah Leigh (Genomics England Curator)

Publications for gene: KCNH8 were set to 39156922

25 Mar 2025, Gel status: 1

Created, Added New Source, Set mode of inheritance, Set publications, Set Phenotypes

Sarah Leigh (Genomics England Curator)

gene: KCNH8 was added gene: KCNH8 was added to Early onset or syndromic epilepsy. Sources: Literature Mode of inheritance for gene: KCNH8 was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal Publications for gene: KCNH8 were set to 39156922 Phenotypes for gene: KCNH8 were set to Familial Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy Review for gene: KCNH8 was set to RED