Variant: rs104893955 

    present in Gene: EPM2A;LOC100507557
    present in Chromosome: 6
    Position on Chromosome: 145735405
    Alleles of this Variant: A/C;T

rs104893955 in EPM2A;LOC100507557 gene and Lafora Disease PMID 14706656 2004 The carbohydrate-binding domain of Lafora disease protein targets Lafora polyglucosan bodies.

PMID 9771710 1998 Mutations in a gene encoding a novel protein tyrosine phosphatase cause progressive myoclonus epilepsy.

PMID 11175283 2000 Mutational spectrum of the EPM2A gene in progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora: high degree of allelic heterogeneity and prevalence of deletions.

PMID 11001928 2000 Laforin, defective in the progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type, is a dual-specificity phosphatase associated with polyribosomes.

PMID 14532330 2003 Laforin, the dual-phosphatase responsible for Lafora disease, interacts with R5 (PTG), a regulatory subunit of protein phosphatase-1 that enhances glycogen accumulation.

PMID 12560877 2003 Two novel mutations in the EPM2A gene in a Korean patient with Lafora's progressive myoclonus epilepsy.

PMID 25544560 2015 Structural mechanism of laforin function in glycogen dephosphorylation and lafora disease.

PMID 9931343 1999 A novel protein tyrosine phosphatase gene is mutated in progressive myoclonus epilepsy of the Lafora type (EPM2).

PMID 18311786 2008 Lafora disease in the Indian population: EPM2A and NHLRC1 gene mutations and their impact on subcellular localization of laforin and malin.

PMID 12019207 2002 Genotype-phenotype correlations for EPM2A mutations in Lafora's progressive myoclonus epilepsy: exon 1 mutations associate with an early-onset cognitive deficit subphenotype.

PMID 26231210 2015 Mechanistic Insights into Glucan Phosphatase Activity against Polyglucan Substrates.

PMID 14722920 2004 Loss of function of the cytoplasmic isoform of the protein laforin (EPM2A) causes Lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy.

PMID 11739371 2002 A unique carbohydrate binding domain targets the lafora disease phosphatase to glycogen.

PMID 15009235 2004 A novel exon 1 mutation in a patient with atypical lafora progressive myoclonus epilepsy seen as childhood-onset cognitive deficit.