Clinical and genetic characteristics of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Open Access
- 14 November 2021
- journal article
- Published by V.M. Bekhterev National Research Medical Center for Psychiatry and Neurology in Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology
- Vol. 1 (2), 95-105
- https://doi.org/10.52667/2712-9179-2021-1-2-95-105
Abstract
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is reported as a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease with a high risk of inheritance. The aim of the study was to establish phenotype features and genetic risk factors for juvenile myoclonic epilepsy to advance existing approaches of prevention, treatment, and observation of patients with JME. Methods: anamnestic; clinical; neurophysiological (EEG); neuroradiological (MRI), neuropsychological; laboratory (DNA-diagnostics). JME starts with absences more frequently in females as compared to males (32.0% vs. 15.4%), and with GTCS and myoclonic in males as compared to females (46.2% and 36.5% vs. 36.0% and 31.2%, respectively). The 1st phenotype of JME was more frequently encountered in male individuals in comparison with female ones (55.8% vs. 34.7%), and the 2nd phenotype was more frequently encountered in female individuals in comparison with male ones (16.9% vs. 5.8%). Homozygous carriage of the T allele of the GJD2 gene (rs3743123) was associated with the development of JME in the study population, OR = 2.66 (95% CI 1.24 to 5.74). 41.5% of patients with JME have a slow metabolizer pharmacogenetic status, which is a risk factor for pseudo-pharmacoresistance and the development of adverse drug reactions.Keywords
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