Voltage Sensors in Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis

Abstract

Researchers at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, UK, conducted automated DNA sequencing of the S4 regions of CACNA1S and SCN4A in 83 patients with hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoPP).

Keywords

• hypokalemic periodic paralysis
• low serum potassium
• arginine mutations in s4 segments