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Epilepsy research gets new guidance

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The leucine-rich repeat-containing gene, LGI1, was identified as a possible tumor suppressor gene involved in brain tumor development. It now appears that it also plays a role in abnormal brain development that leads to epilepsy.

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Figure 1: Possible role of LGI1 in the development of normal brain and gliomas.

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