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To estimate the familial risk of epilepsy across specific syndromic subtypes and evaluate potential shared genetic influences using rigorous population-based methods.

January 25, 2014BrainOpen Access

Familial risk of epilepsy: a population-based study

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To estimate the familial risk of epilepsy across specific syndromic subtypes and evaluate potential shared genetic influences using rigorous population-based methods.
Identified 660 residents born in 1920 or later with incident epilepsy (1935–1994) and their 2,439 first-degree relatives in Olmsted County, Minnesota, via the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
Reviewed relatives' medical records to determine epilepsy incidence, estimating age-specific cumulative incidence to age 40 and standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) relative to the general population.
Relatives of probands had a 4.7% cumulative incidence to age 40 and a 3.3-fold increased risk of epilepsy (95% CI, 2.75–5.99), peaking in relatives of probands with idiopathic generalized epilepsies (SIR 6.0) and prenatal/developmental causes (SIR 4.3).
For generalized epilepsy probands, relative SIRs were 8.3 (95% CI, 2.93–15.31) for generalized and 2.5 (95% CI, 0.92–4.00) for focal epilepsy; for focal epilepsy probands, relative SIRs were 1.0 (95% CI, 0.00–2.19) for generalized and 2.6 (95% CI, 1.19–4.26) for focal epilepsy.
Bidirectional risk increases occurred between epilepsies of unknown cause and prenatal/developmental causes (SIR 4.1 and 3.8), while maternal transmission effects were restricted to focal epilepsy.

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Population-based cohort study reveals a 3.3-fold higher epilepsy risk in first-degree relatives, indicating both shared and distinct genetic mechanisms across focal and generalized epilepsy subtypes.

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Peljto et al. (2014) studied this question.

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Population-based cohort study reveals a 3.3-fold higher epilepsy risk in first-degree relatives, indicating both shared and distinct genetic mechanisms across focal and generalized epilepsy subtypes.

Familial risk of epilepsy: a population-based study

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