Article
A multicenter study of BRD2 as a risk factor for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Epilepsia - 1 Apr 2007
Cavalleri Gianpiero L, Walley Nicole M, Soranzo Nicole, Mulley John, Doherty Colin P, Kapoor Ashish, Depondt Chantal, Lynch John M, Scheffer Ingrid E, Heils Armin, Gehrmann Anne, Kinirons Peter, Gandhi Sonia, Satishchandra Parthasarathy, Wood Nicholas W, Anand Anuranjan, Sander Thomas, Berkovic Samuel F, Delanty Norman, Goldstein David B, Sisodiya Sanjay M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Although complex idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGEs) are recognized to have a significant genetic component, as yet there are no known common susceptibility variants. It has recently been suggested that variation in the BRD2 gene confers increased risk of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), which accounts for around a quarter of all IGE. Here we examine the association between the candidate causal...
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