Mosaic ring chromosome 18 in a Chinese child with epilepsy: a case report and review of the literature.

Jing WangLing XiaoJunling WangZijin DingJie NiXiaoyan Long

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)

We describe the characteristics of all seizures that have been reported in these cases and propose that the appearance of epilepsy in r(18) patients may be associated with the abnormality of chromosome karyotypes. Further studies are warranted to confirm this.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
copy number
mental health
prognostic factors
temporal lobe epilepsy
case control