Analysis of the Pathogenic Variants of Genes Using a Gene Panel in Turkish Epilepsy Patients.

BACKGROUND

Epilepsy is a neurological disease that is mostly caused by genetic factors. The genetic diagnosis of patients in a pediatric epilepsy cohort was provided.

METHODS

After phenotypic characterization, a 48-gene Next Generation Sequencing panel was performed in 110 Turkish children with epilepsy. The variants were called and annotated using the QIAGEN Ingenuity® Variant Analysis software.

RESULTS

Of those carrying pathogenic mutations, two patients had mutations in the SCN1A gene and two patients in the TSC2 gene; other patients had mutations in the SCN1B, GRIN2B, KCNQ2, PCDH19, CHRNA2, and MECP2 genes. In total, nine out of 10 patients had pathogenic variants that were not previously reported.

CONCLUSIONS

The genotype-phenotype correlations of these variants were discussed by comparing the clinical findings with the literature.