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PRRT2 Mutations are the major cause of benign familial infantile seizures

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Title
PRRT2 Mutations are the major cause of benign familial infantile seizures
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Human Mutation, June 2012
DOI 10.1002/humu.22126
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Julian Schubert, Roberta Paravidino, Felicitas Becker, Andrea Berger, Nerses Bebek, Amedeo Bianchi, Knut Brockmann, Giuseppe Capovilla, Bernardo Dalla Bernardina, Yukio Fukuyama, Georg F. Hoffmann, Karin Jurkat‐Rott, Anna‐Kaisa Anttonen, Gerhard Kurlemann, Anna‐Elina Lehesjoki, Frank Lehmann‐Horn, Massimo Mastrangelo, Ulrike Mause, Stephan Müller, Bernd Neubauer, Burkhard Püst, Dietz Rating, Angela Robbiano, Susanne Ruf, Christopher Schroeder, Andreas Seidel, Nicola Specchio, Ulrich Stephani, Pasquale Striano, Jens Teichler, Dilsad Turkdogan, Federico Vigevano, Maurizio Viri, Peter Bauer, Federico Zara, Holger Lerche, Yvonne G. Weber

Abstract

Mutations in PRRT2 have been described in paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia (PKD) and infantile convulsions with choreoathetosis (PKD with infantile seizures), and recently also in some families with benign familial infantile seizures (BFIS) alone. We analyzed PRRT2 in 49 families and three sporadic cases with BFIS only of Italian, German, Turkish, and Japanese origin and identified the previously described mutation c.649dupC in an unstable series of nine cytosines to occur in 39 of our families and one sporadic case (77% of index cases). Furthermore, three novel mutations were found in three other families, whereas 17% of our index cases did not show PRRT2 mutations, including a large family with late-onset BFIS and febrile seizures. Our study further establishes PRRT2 as the major gene for BFIS alone.

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Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 66 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 15%
Student > Master 8 12%
Other 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 18 27%
Unknown 7 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 39%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 13%
Neuroscience 8 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 16%
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