Risk of passing epilepsy to children
My daughter had epilepsy and well treated at her age 3-8.She has 5 year old mail twins.How can we get sure if my grand sons will have or not epilepsy risk?
Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Epilepsy & Seizures Support Group.
Hi, @saneezrimal – I noted you made your first post on Connect. Great to hear from you.
Hoping you may have gotten to see all the discussions on the Epilepsy & Seizure Disorders group on Connect https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/epilepsy-2bb359/. One particular thread in addition to this one you might enjoy is this one on living with epilepsy https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/living-with-epilepsy-introduce-yourself-meet-others/.
Do your parents, or your children, if you have them, also have epilepsy?
Thank you soo much @lisalucier
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My son is concerned for his daughters also. A link to the National Center for Biotechnology Information website with more information on EGI studies, should you choose to look into that. I wish the best for you and your family.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs001551.v1.p1#:~:text=The%20Epilepsy%20Genetics%20Initiative%20%28EGI%29%20was%20created%20in,a%20secure%20genetic%20diagnosis%20from%20their%20initial%20sequencing.
Acknowledgement Statement: Please cite/reference the use of dbGaP data by including the dbGaP accession phs001551.v1.p1. Additionally, use the following statement to acknowledge the submitter(s) of this study:
All publicity and publications that utilize data generated through the EGI Collaborative will acknowledge in a prominent position the contributions of CURE via reference to the 'Epilepsy Genetics Initiative, A Signature Program of CURE'.
Thanks for the info regarding EGI @jakedduck1. I will be giving this info to my son, actually all my children.