Little is known about genetic testing in adult patients with epilepsy but at times if a genetic etiology can be determined, targeted therapies can be initiated and symptoms may be reduced
We report the characteristics and detection rates of a cohort of adult patients with epilepsy undergoing exome and MGPT
The detection rate in characterized genes for childhood onset and adult onset epilepsy were both 17.8%.
Authors: Zöe Powis; Kirsten Blanco; Kelly Farwell Hagman; Elaine C. Weltmer; Amanda Bergner; Jing Wang; Sha Tang