Mark A Corbett, Susannah T Bellows, Melody Li, Renée Carroll, Silvana Micallef, Gemma L Carvill, Candace T Myers, Katherine B Howell, Snezana Maljevic, Holger Lerche, Elena V Gazina, Heather C Mefford, Melanie Bahlo, Samuel F Berkovic, Steven Petrou, Ingrid E Scheffer, Jozef Gecz
OBJECTIVE: To identify the genetic basis of a family segregating episodic ataxia, infantile seizures, and heterogeneous epilepsies and to study the phenotypic spectrum of KCNA2 mutations. METHODS: A family with 7 affected individuals over 3 generations underwent detailed phenotyping. Whole genome sequencing was performed on a mildly affected grandmother and her grandson with epileptic encephalopathy (EE). Segregating variants were filtered and prioritized based on functional annotations...
November 8, 2016: Neurology