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Genetic Testing for Epilepsy in Adults

Session:
#604
Date:
Friday, Apr 13, 2018 10:30am – 12:00pm
Conference:
ACMG 2018
Authors:
Amanda Bergner, Elaine C. Weltmer, Jing Wang, Kelly Farwell Hagman, Kirsten Blanco, Sha Tang, Zöe Powis

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  • 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%.
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