Symbol
| KCNE2
| contributors: mct/npt - updated : 26-04-2017
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HGNC name
| potassium voltage-gated channel, Isk-related family, member 2
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HGNC id
| 6242
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Other morbid association(s)
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Type | Gene Modification | Chromosome rearrangement | Protein expression | Protein Function
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constitutional
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cardiac KCNE2 transcript levels are approximately 10-fold upregulated at the end of pregnancy | |
Susceptibility
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to atrial fibrillation and arythmia to antibiotic-induced cardiac arrhythmia |
Variant & Polymorphism
SNP
| increasing the arrhythmia risk |
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potassium currents inhibited by sulfamethoxazole at therapeutic levels |
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Candidate gene
Marker
Therapy target
| semispecific, reversible pharmacological targeting of the KCNQ1-KCNE2 complex to treat thyroid disease (Roepke 2009) |
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| Kcne2-deficient mice had hypothyroidism, dwarfism, alopecia, goiter and cardiac abnormalities including hypertrophy, fibrosis, and reduced fractional shortening (Roepke 2009) |