Genetics and clinical correlation of Dravet syndrome and its mimics - experience of a tertiary center in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Yi-Hsuan Liu (Author), Yi-Ting Cheng (Author), Meng-Han Tsai (Author), I-Jun Chou (Author), Po-Cheng Hung (Author), Meng-Ying Hsieh (Author), Yi-Shan Wang (Author), Yun-Ju Chen (Author), Cheng-Yen Kuo (Author), Jainn-Jim Lin (Author), Huei-Shyong Wang (Author), Kuang-Lin Lin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Dravet syndrome is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy characterized by the onset of prolonged febrile and afebrile seizures in infancy and SCN1A gene mutations. In some cases, non-SCN1A gene mutations can present with a phenotype very similar to that of Dravet syndrome....