Table 4 Variant yield by age of onset and epilepsy syndrome

From: Incorporating epilepsy genetics into clinical practice: a 360°evaluation

 

Patients with

  

Age at seizure onset

no variants

only benign variants

VUS

pathogenic variants

Total

Diagnostic yield

0–1 m

1

3

2

10

16

63%

2–24 m

14

10

3

7

34

21%

IEE

5

7

3

4

19

21%

FS/TLE

2

0

0

2

4

50%

IS

7

3

0

1

11

a9%

>2 y

22

18

4

2

46

4%

NFLE/SHE

4

2

0

0

6

0%

GGE

4

3

2

0

9

0%

EOABS

0

4

0

0

4

0%

ESES

5

5

0

1

11

9%

FFE

4

2

1

1

8

13%

DRE-FOC

5

2

1

0

8

0%

Grand total

37

31

9

19

96

20%

  1. aone further case was subsequently solved through whole genome research investigation