Synonyms:ENTREZ:2564, GABRE, HGNC:4085, MIM:300093, NM_004961, NM_021984, NM_021987, NM_021990, NP_004952, XM_011531140, XM_017029387, XM_017029388, XM_017029389, XM_024452360, XP_011529442, XP_016884876, XP_016884877, XP_016884878, XP_024308128, gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit epsilon
Omim:OMIM:300093
Id:3f65aed8-0b8b-544b-8bd7-f1544a4c8c54
Hgnc:HGNC:4085
Description:gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor subunit epsilon
The product of this gene belongs to the ligand-gated ionic channel (TC 1.A.9) family. It encodes the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor which is a multisubunit chloride channel that mediates the fastest inhibitory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. This gene encodes an epsilon subunit. It is mapped to chromosome Xq28 in a cluster comprised of genes encoding alpha 3, beta 4 and theta subunits of the same receptor. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been identified, but only one is thought to encode a protein. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008]