New Mechanism Discovered Behind Infant Epilepsy

Monday, September 7, 2015 - 10:40 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have discovered a new explanation for severe early infant epilepsy. Mutations in the gene encoding the protein KCC2 can cause the disease, hereby confirming an earlier theory. The findings are being published in the journal Nature Communications. read more

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