Photosensitivity and CHD2 Variants

Rebecca García Sosa; Srishti Nangia

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-9-1

Photosensitivity and CHD2 Variants

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 9

By: Rebecca García Sosa and Srishti Nangia

Open Access

|Oct 2015

Abstract

Investigators from multinational institutions hypothesized that disruption of CHD2, which encodes chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 2, would be associated with common forms of photosensitive epilepsy or photosensitivity manifesting as a photoparoxysmal response alone.

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Trivisano M Striano P Sartorelli J Giordano L Traverso M Accorsi P CHD2 mutations are a rare cause of generalized epilepsy with myoclonic-atonic seizures Epilepsy Behav 2015 Oct 51 53 56 10.1016/j.yebeh.2015.06.029 26262932
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-9-1 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 66 - 66

Submitted on: Oct 4, 2015

Accepted on: Oct 9, 2015

Published on: Oct 11, 2015

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Eyelid Myoclonia with Absences,

Photosensitive,

Seizure

© 2015 Rebecca García Sosa, Srishti Nangia, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 9