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  3. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy phenotypes associated with different EFHC1 mutations

Idiopathic generalized epilepsy phenotypes associated with different EFHC1 mutations

  • Neurology. 2006 Dec 12;67(11):2029-31. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000250254.67042.1b.
E Stogmann 1,  P Lichtner,  C Baumgartner,  S Bonelli,  E Assem-Hilger,  F Leutmezer,  M Schmied,  C Hotzy,  T M Strom,  T Meitinger,  F Zimprich,  A Zimprich
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
PMID: 17159113 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000250254.67042.1b
Abstract

We sequenced 61 patients with various idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IgE) syndromes for mutations in the EFHC1 gene. We detected three novel heterozygous missense mutations (I174V, C259Y, A394S) and one possibly pathogenic variant in the 3' UTR (2014t>c). The mutation I174V was also detected in 1 of 372 screened patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. We conclude that mutations in the EFHC1 gene may underlie different types of epilepsy syndromes.

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