Why West? Comparisons of clinical, genetic and molecular features of infants with and without spasms.

Infantile spasms are the defining seizures of West syndrome, a severe form of early life epilepsy with poorly-understood pathophysiology. We present a novel comparative analysis of infants with spasms versus other seizure-types and identify clinical, etiological, and molecular-genetic factors prefer...

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Main Authors: Anne T Berg, Samya Chakravorty, Sookyong Koh, Zachary M Grinspan, Renée A Shellhaas, Russell P Saneto, Elaine C Wirrell, Jason Coryell, Catherine J Chu, John R Mytinger, William D Gaillard, Ignacio Valencia, Kelly G Knupp, Tobias Loddenkemper, Joseph E Sullivan, Annapurna Poduri, John J Millichap, Cynthia Keator, Courtney Wusthoff, Nicole Ryan, William B Dobyns, Madhuri Hegde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5843222?pdf=render