Resumen
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is an idiopathic generalised epilepsy (IGE) characterised by typical absence seizures manifested by transitory loss of awareness with 2.5-4 Hz spike-wave complexes on ictal EEG. A genetic component to the aetiology is well recognised but the mechanism of inheritance and the genes involved are yet to be fully established. A genome wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based high density linkage scan was carried out using 41 nuclear pedigrees with at least two affected members. Multipoint parametric and non-parametric linkage analyses were performed using MERLIN 1.1.1 and a susceptibility locus was identified on chromosome 3p23-p14 (Zmean = 3.9, p < 0.0001; HLOD = 3.3, α = 0.7). The linked region harbours the functional candidate genes TRAK1 and CACNA2D2. Fine-mapping using a tagSNP approach demonstrated disease association with variants in TRAK1.
Idioma original | English |
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Páginas (desde-hasta) | 247-255 |
Número de páginas | 9 |
Publicación | Epilepsy Research |
Volumen | 87 |
N.º | 2-3 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - dic. 2009 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:This work was supported by the MRC (UK) , Wellcome Trust, Action Medical Research and Epilepsy Research UK . We are very grateful to the families for participating in this study and to all our collaborating clinicians, including Drs Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Andrew Makoff and Ingrid Olsson. We would like to thank Généthon for their assistance in collecting the French samples. Austrian financial support came from the Austrian Research Foundation (awarded to Harald Aschauer, MD), grant number P10460-MED. Thomas Sander, MD, was awarded a grant by the German National Genome Research Network (NGFNplus EMINet: 01GS08120). Dutch financial support came from the Netherlands Organisation for Health, Research and Development (ZonMW, 940-33-030) and the Dutch National Epilepsy Fund – ‘The power of the small’ (NEF – ‘De macht van het kleine’). Danish support (Mogens Friis, MD, and Marianne Kjeldsen, MD) came from the NINDS grant (NS-31564).
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't