FAME6 TNRC6A

Disease ID
FAME6
Gene ID
TNRC6A
Updated
Feb 7, 2025
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Disease

Name
Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy type 6
Inheritance
Autosomal dominant
Description
Cortical tremor, seizures with generalised motor (tonic-clonic) onset1 .
Prevalence
Age of OnsetYears23  74
Age of Onset Details
Limited clinical details from one family, 'early 20s to 70s'

Locus

Details
Mechanism
GoF?
RNA toxicity hypothesized2,3 .
Year
20182
Location in Gene
Exon 1
Gene Strand

Alleles

Ref. Motif
TTTTA
Pathogenic (ref.)
TTTCA
Pathogenic (gene)
ATTTC
Unknown (ref.)
TTTTT
Unknown (gene)
TTTTT
PathogenicUnits1,100  1,100

gnomAD

Pathogenic Genotype (%)Admixed AmericanAfrican/African AmericanAmishAshkenazi JewishEuropean (non Finnish)FinnishMiddle EasternSouth AsianEast AsianOthers01234567TNRC6A

Pathogenic Genotype (%): % of individuals predicted to be affected based on their genotype

References

Direct supporting references for info on this page.

1
The Lancet. Neurology · 2024-07-01
pmid:38876750
2
Nature genetics · 2018-03-05
pmid:29507423
3
Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024-03-11
pmid:38467784

Additional Literature

Additional literature related to this locus.

Raw PubMed search results
(All PubMed results returned by searching for this gene, tandem repeats, and disease, in medline format)

HGG advances · 2022-08-15
pmid:36092952
Journal of human genetics · 2020-10-10
pmid:33040085
Intronic (TTTGA)
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2019-09-04
pmid:31483537
European journal of neurology · 2018-11-30
pmid:30351492
Nucleic acids research · 2012-10-04
pmid:23042244