Journal article
The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project
Catharine Freyer Karn, Kathleen McGovern, Nora Stillman, Kevin McKenna, Vickie Mays, Michael Williams, Alan Carpenter, Kevin Miller, Prashant Agarwal, Jennifer Ayala, Cate Bakey, Thomas Borkowski, Riann Boyd, Alicia Camuto, Cendy Carrasco, Jennifer Cassarly, Yong Collins, Kevin Collon, Sean Collon, Heather Eckman Show all
CLINICAL TRIALS | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2013
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects approximately 50 million people worldwide. Both risk of epilepsy and response to treatment partly depend on genetic factors, and gene identification is a promising approach to target new prediction, treatment, and prevention strategies. However, despite significant progress in the identification of genes causing epilepsy in families with a Mendelian inheritance pattern, there is relatively little known about the genetic factors responsible for common forms of epilepsy and so-called epileptic encephalopathies. Study design The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project (EPGP) is a multi-institutional, retrospective phenotype-genotype st..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is supported by National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) grant U01 NS053998, as well as planning grants from the Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures (FACES) Foundation and the Richard Thalheimer Philanthropic Fund.