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Neither mutation altered the rate of activation or inactivation of P/Q channels (Fig. 2; Table 3). We also identified four previously reported non-synonymous SNPs (dbSNP, NCBI) in the patients. Three of these occur in exon 19, and two, E921D (rs16022) and E993V (rs16023), were present in nine of the patients �C 9/17 patients vs. 30/188 control chromosomes (Fig. 1 and Table 2). To determine whether these two coding variants resided on the same ancestral chromosome we amplified a region spanning both E921D and E993V in the patients, cloned the product, and isolated and sequenced individual copies. In all cases both E921D and E993V were found to be located on the same allele. We also confirmed the cis configuration of the two variants in healthy control http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diglyceride chromosomes obtained from the 1958 Wellcome Trust Case Control Cohort (WTCCC). Because they occurred on the same allele, we determined the combined functional impact of E921D and E993V together on the P/Q channel. The pair of SNPs conferred both a reduction in calcium current density (E921D:E993V: 5.5 �� 0.8, n= 11; WT: 9.1 �� 0.9 pA pF?1, n= 10, P= 0.03), and an approximately 7 mV depolarising shift http://www.selleckchem.com/products/GDC-0941.html in channel activation (V1/2max E921D:E993V = 8.3 �� 0.8; WT = 1.5 �� 0.6 mV; P http://www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD0530.html and E993V, and is likely to be derived from a separate ancestral chromosome. The final variant detected in our patient series, G1105S identified in patient F, is in exon 20 (Fig. 1) and segregation analysis could not be carried out due to the distance between exons 19 and 20 in CACNA1A. E1018K conferred a 9 mV depolarising shift in channel activation (V1/2max E1018K = 10.3 �� 1.3; P= 0.0016) suggesting a loss of function. This variant also produced a small non-significant reduction in calcium current density (E1018K: 6.9 �� 1.2 pA pF?1, n= 6, P= 0.17). In contrast the final variant, G1105S (rs16027), present in patient 6, conferred a small gain of function on heterologously expressed P/Q channels (G1105S, current density: 14.0 �� 2.1 pA pF?1, n= 9, P= 0.04) (Fig. 3). Taken together, these data suggest that the known polymorphisms in CACNA1A exert significant and different effects on P/Q function in patients and in healthy controls. However as both G1105S and E1018K were only present in individual patients, our genetic data are not sufficient to determine whether these variants play a role in developing episodic ataxia and epilepsy.