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Characteristics of patients with benign partial epilepsy in infancy without PRRT2 mutations.
Epilepsy research - 1 Dec 2015
Sangu Noriko, Shimojima Keiko, Akihisa Okumura, Ando Tomohiro, Yamamoto Toshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the proline-rich transmembrane protein 2 gene (PRRT2) are known to cause clinical symptoms of paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD), benign partial epilepsy in infancy (BPEI), and infantile convulsions with choreoathetosis (ICCA) syndrome; however, not all patients with BPEI have PRRT2 mutations, and the genetic backgrounds for such patients are still unknown. To characterize BPEI patients without...
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