Precision medicine for genetic epilepsy on the horizon: Recent advances, present challenges, and suggestions for continued progress

JK Knowles, I Helbig, CS Metcalf, LS Lubbers… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The genetic basis of many epilepsies is increasingly understood, giving rise to the possibility
of precision treatments tailored to specific genetic etiologies. Despite this, current medical …

[HTML][HTML] From genetic testing to precision medicine in epilepsy

P Striano, BA Minassian - Neurotherapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Epilepsy includes a number of medical conditions with recurrent seizures as common
denominator. The large number of different syndromes and seizure types as well as the …

Epilepsy genetics and precision medicine in adults: a new landscape for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

Á Beltrán-Corbellini, Á Aledo-Serrano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This review aims to provide an updated perspective of epilepsy genetics and precision
medicine in adult patients, with special focus on developmental and epileptic …

Genetic architecture of inherited retinal degeneration in Germany: A large cohort study from a single diagnostic center over a 9‐year period

N Weisschuh, CD Obermaier, F Battke… - Human …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We aimed to unravel the molecular genetic basis of inherited retinal degeneration (IRD) in a
comprehensive cohort of patients diagnosed in the largest center for IRD in Germany. A …

Multigene panel testing in a large cohort of adults with epilepsy: diagnostic yield and clinically actionable genetic findings

D McKnight, SL Bristow, RM Truty, A Morales… - Neurology …, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives Although genetic testing among children with epilepsy has
demonstrated clinical utility and become a part of routine testing, studies in adults are …

Challenges in the clinical advancement of cell therapies for Parkinson's disease

S Skidmore, RA Barker - Nature biomedical engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Cell therapies as potential treatments for Parkinson's disease first gained traction in the
1980s, owing to the clinical success of trials that used transplants of foetal midbrain …

Possible precision medicine implications from genetic testing using combined detection of sequence and intragenic copy number variants in a large cohort with …

R Truty, N Patil, R Sankar, J Sullivan… - Epilepsia …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Molecular genetic etiologies in epilepsy have become better understood in recent
years, creating important opportunities for precision medicine. Building on these advances …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in epilepsy genomics and genetic testing

M Hebbar, HC Mefford - F1000Research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of severe, early onset
epilepsies characterized by refractory seizures, developmental delay or regression …

Heterogeneous clinical and functional features of GRIN2D-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

W XiangWei, V Kannan, Y Xu, GJ Kosobucki… - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
N-methyl d-aspartate receptors are ligand-gated ionotropic receptors mediating a slow,
calcium-permeable component of excitatory synaptic transmission in the CNS. Variants in …

Advances in genetic testing and optimization of clinical management in children and adults with epilepsy

M Scala, A Bianchi, F Bisulli, A Coppola… - Expert review of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Epileptic disorders are a heterogeneous group of medical conditions with
epilepsy as the common denominator. Genetic causes, electro-clinical features, and …