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Epilepsy risk in offspring of affected parents; a cohort study of the "maternal effect" in epilepsy.
Annals of clinical and translational neurology - 1 Jan 2021
Dreier Julie W, Ellis Colin A, Berkovic Samuel F, Cotsapas Chris, Ottman Ruth, Christensen Jakob
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether the risk of epilepsy is higher in offspring of mothers with epilepsy than in offspring of fathers with epilepsy. METHODS: In a prospective population-based register study, we considered all singletons born in Denmark between 1981 and 2016 (N = 1,754,742). From the Danish National Patient Register since 1977, we identified epilepsy diagnoses in all study participants and their family...
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