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Dravet syndrome and its mimics: Beyond SCN1A.
Epilepsia - 1 Nov 2017
Steel Dora, Symonds Joseph D, Zuberi Sameer M, Brunklaus Andreas
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OBJECTIVE: Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by the onset of prolonged febrile and afebrile seizures in infancy, and evolving to drug-resistant epilepsy with accompanying cognitive, behavioral, and motor impairment. Most cases are now known to be caused by pathogenic variants in the sodium channel gene SCN1A, but several other genes have also been...
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