Genetics of Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy

Abstract

The role of SCN1A gene mutations in the etiology of severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI) was investigated in 93 patients followed at the Hopital Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, and other centers in France and Italy.

Keywords

• severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
• asymptomatic
• scn1a mutations