CSTB, cystatin B, 1476

N. diseases: 155; N. variants: 14
Disease: Infantile Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy ×
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0751122
Disease: Infantile Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy
Infantile Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy 		0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE PRO: In the past decade, genotyping has started to help the neurologic practitioner treat patients with three types of epilepsy causing mutations, namely (1) SCN1A, a sodium channel gene mutated in Dravet's sporadic severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI and SMEB); (2) laforin (dual specificity protein phosphatase) and malin (ubiquitin E3 ligase) in Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy (PME); and (3) cystatin B in Unverricht-Lundborg type of PME. 19087113 2008