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Investigating the effect of polygenic background on epilepsy phenotype in 'monogenic' families.
EBioMedicine - 1 Nov 2024
Oliver Karen L, Scheffer Ingrid E, Ellis Colin A, Grinton Bronwyn E, Berkovic Samuel F, Bahlo Melanie
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BACKGROUND: Phenotypic variability within families with epilepsy is often observed, even when relatives share the same monogenic cause. We aimed to investigate whether common polygenic risk for epilepsy could explain the penetrance and phenotypic expression of rare pathogenic variants in familial epilepsies. METHODS: We studied 58 clinically heterogeneous families with genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus...
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