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Gene tests in adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability

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A recent study describes the yield and clinical utility of epilepsy gene panel testing in a cohort of adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability. These findings are similar to those in children with developmental epileptic encephalopathies and support the utility of testing in this subgroup of adults with epilepsy.

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  1. G. H. Sergievsky Center and Departments of Epidemiology and Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ruth Ottman

  2. Division of Translational Epidemiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Ruth Ottman

  3. Epilepsy Genetics Program, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Annapurna Poduri

  4. Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Annapurna Poduri

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Ottman, R., Poduri, A. Gene tests in adults with epilepsy and intellectual disability. Nat Rev Neurol 16, 527–528 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-020-0388-5

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