Uncovering genomic causes of co-morbidity in epilepsy: gene-driven phenotypic characterization of rare microdeletions.

Patients with epilepsy often suffer from other important conditions. The existence of such co-morbidities is frequently not recognized and their relationship with epilepsy usually remains unexplained.We describe three patients with common, sporadic, non-syndromic epilepsies in whom large genomic mic...

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Main Authors: Dalia Kasperavičiūtė, Claudia B Catarino, Krishna Chinthapalli, Lisa M S Clayton, Maria Thom, Lillian Martinian, Hannah Cohen, Shazia Adalat, Detlef Bockenhauer, Simon A Pope, Nicholas Lench, Martin Koltzenburg, John S Duncan, Peter Hammond, Raoul C M Hennekam, John M Land, Sanjay M Sisodiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3157359?pdf=render