Current practice in diagnostic genetic testing of the epilepsies

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
• ² Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
• ³ National Health Laboratory Service, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
• ⁴ Epilepsy Research Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne (Austin Health), Heidelberg, VIC, Australia
• ⁵ Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
• ⁶ Department of Neuropediatrics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Christian-Albrechts-University, Building C, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany
• ⁷ Division of Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
• ⁸ The Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (ENGIN), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
• ⁹ Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
• ¹⁰ Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
• ¹¹ Epilepsy Research Centre, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Heidelberg and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
• ¹² Department of Epileptology and Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany
• ¹³ Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• ¹⁴ Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Medicine, Danish Epilepsy Centre, Dianalund, Denmark
• ¹⁵ Institute for Regional Health Services, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
• ¹⁶ Epilepsy Genetics Program, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
• ¹⁷ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
• ¹⁸ Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology London, UK and Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Buckinghamshire, UK
• ¹⁹ Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB-University of Antwerp, VIB, Antwerp, Belgium Department of Neurology, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• ²⁰ Department of Paediatric Neurology, Paediatric and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• ²¹ Department of Epileptology and Neurology, University of Aachen, Germany
• ²² Center for Rare Diseases, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
• ²³ University College London National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK
• ²⁴ Department of Neurology, University of Califonia, San Francisco, USA
• ²⁵ Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
• ²⁶ The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• ²⁷ Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore
• ²⁸ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
• ²⁹ Division of Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA