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Revisiting the clinical impact of variants in EFHC1 in patients with different phenotypes of genetic generalized epilepsy.
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B - 1 Nov 2020
Gonsales Marina C, Ribeiro Patrícia A O, Betting Luiz E, Alvim Marina K M, Guerreiro Carlos M, Yasuda Clarissa L, Gitaí Daniel L G, Cendes Fernando, Lopes-Cendes Iscia
Abstract excerpt
The most common form of genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) is juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), which accounts for 5 to 10% of all epilepsy cases. The gene EFHC1 has been implicated as a putative cause of JME. However, it remains debatable whether testing for EFHC1 mutations should be included in the diagnostic epilepsy gene panels. To investigate the clinical utility of EFHC1 testing, we studied 125...
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