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CACNA1C-Related Disorders

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Disease Overview

The clinical manifestations of CACNA1C-related disorders include a spectrum of nonsyndromic and syndromic phenotypes, which generally correlate with the impact of the pathogenic variant on calcium current. Phenotypes can include:

Timothy syndrome
CACNA1C-related neurodevelopmental syndrome (  Neurodevelopmental disorder with hypotonia, language delay, and skeletal defects with or without seizures)
Nonsyndromic long QT syndrome (long QT syndrome 8) –  LQT8 is used in medical literature to refer to both Timothy syndrome and nonsyndromic CACNA1C-related long QT syndrome
Nonsyndromic short QT syndrome (SQT6″ refers to CACNA1C-related short QT syndrome)
Brugada syndrome with short QT (“BRGDA3” refers to CACNA1C-related Brugada syndrome)

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1403/]


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