STXBP1-related disorders: deciphering the phenotypic code

STX. Neurodevelopmental disorders due to disease-causing variants in STXBP1 are amongst the most common genetic epilepsies with an estimated incidence of 1:30,000. However, despite representing a well-known cause of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in the first year of life, relatively little has been known about the overall genetic landscape and no genotype-phenotype correlations have been established. In our recent publication including almost 20,000 phenotypic annotations in 534 individuals with STXBP1-related disorders, we dive deep into the clinical spectrum, examine longitudinal phenotypes, and make first attempts at assessing medication efficacy based on objective information deposited in the Electronic Medical Records (EMR), including information from the almost 100 “STXers” seen at our center in the last four years. Continue reading