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Copy number variants are frequent in genetic generalized epilepsy with intellectual disability.
Neurology - 22 Oct 2013
Mullen Saul A, Carvill Gemma L, Bellows Susannah, Bayly Marta A, Trucks Holger, Lal Dennis, Sander Thoman, Berkovic Samuel F, Dibbens Leanne M, Scheffer Ingrid E, Mefford Heather C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We examined whether copy number variants (CNVs) were more common in those with a combination of intellectual disability (ID) and genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) than in those with either phenotype alone via a case-control study. METHODS: CNVs contribute to the genetics of multiple neurodevelopmental disorders with complex inheritance, including GGE and ID. Three hundred fifty-nine probands with GGE...
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