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Familial Hemiplegic Migraine and Episodic Ataxia Type-2 Are Caused by Mutations in the Ca2+ Channel Gene CACNL1A4

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A brain-specific P/Q-type Ca2+ channel alpha1-subunit gene, CACNL1A4, covering 300 kb with 47 exons is characterized, revealing polymorphic variations, including a (CA)n-repeat (D19S1150), a (CAG) n-repeat in the 3'-UTR, and different types of deleterious mutations in FHM and EA-2.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1996-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2264 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Familial hemiplegic migraine & Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6.

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Beyond neurovascular: migraine as a dysfunctional neurolimbic pain network.

TL;DR: A neurolimbic model of migraine is proposed to help bridge a gap in understanding the migraine attack, the interictal dysfunctions of episodic migraine, the progression to chronic migraine, and the common comorbidities with other disorders (such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and mood and anxiety disorders), which may also be considered neurolimBic.
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Familial benign recurrent vertigo.

TL;DR: Familial BRV seems to be a migraine syndrome, probably inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion with decreased penetrance in men, and two-thirds of relatives with BRV met the diagnostic criteria for migraine and the majority reported that they had a typical migraine headache with at least some of their episodes of vertigo.
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A Locus for Migraine without Aura Maps on Chromosome 14q21.2-q22.3

TL;DR: Clinical and molecular data from a large Italian pedigree in which migraine without aura (MO) segregates as an autosomal dominant trait are reported, indicating the first evidence of a genetic locus associated with MO on chromosome 14.
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Basilar-type migraine: clinical, epidemiologic, and genetic features.

TL;DR: There is no firm clinical, epidemiologic, or genetic evidence that BM is an independent disease entity different from MTA, and basilar-type aura seemingly may occur at times in any patient with migraine with typical aura.
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Expansion of an unstable trinucleotide CAG repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1.

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