Catching up. This week’s review of recent publications might be relevant for you because it adds new pertinent details to known epilepsy genes and discusses novel gene findings that might be applicable in clinical practice. This post covers publications on SCN8A in epileptic encephalopathy, CNTNAP4 and interneurons, EML1 in brain malformations, and the meaning of SCN1A variants in small epilepsy families. Continue reading
Category Archives: papers of the week
Publications of the week – DOCK7, DEPDC5 and the yield of diagnostic gene panels
This week in epilepsy genetics. The following publications are a selection of what was published in the last week. These studies might be relevant for you because they both extend the phenotype of recent gene findings and describe novel genes that you should be aware of. Continue reading
Publications of the week: genetics of Infantile Spasms, CERS1, DYRK1A, and hyaluronan
This week in epilepsy genetics. The following publications might be relevant for you, as they demonstrate what happened in the field of epilepsy genetics in the last two weeks. The publications range from basic science studies in extracellular space to novel gene discoveries. I have added a brief comment to each of these studies. Continue reading
Papers of the week – SCN1B, ATP1A3, NGLY1, and ontologies
Filling in. As Dennis is current fully engaged in the Helsinki meeting, I am filling in for him to present the most relevant publications in the field published in the last two weeks. This week’s publications were about functional studies, phenotype delineations, and novel gene findings. Continue reading
Papers of the week – GABRA1 and STXBP1 in Dravet, gene therapy & synonymous mutations in cancers
FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, BAM, BWA, GC, GATK, IGV. Phew. Day 2 at the EuroEPINOMICS bioinformatics workshop in Leuven. Usually my work starts after the initial NGS raw data quality control and mapping procedures. Today’s topics are supposed to improve my understanding of sequencing analysis and NGS data interpretation. While we are still struggling, other scientists have done their home work already. Here are some of the remarkable publications from this week.
Biologists, physicians and computer scientist at the EuroEPINOMICS bioinformatics workshop 2014 in Leuven
Papers of the week – DEPDC5, a “female protective model” and rescued KCNT1 mutations
In final week before our EuroEPINOMICS 
bioinformatics workshop in Leuven people get a little busy and start reading up on all sorts of things. Accordingly, this week’s papers come from all areas of genetics and life science, including three studies in Annals of Neurology on epilepsy genetics.
GPHN deletions in IGE and mutation-dependent recessive inheritance
Living in Cologne is a little tough at the moment. Currently, we are in the middle of the Cologne Carnival, the world’s oldest carnival, which started in 1829. Until the upcoming Wednesday the entire city is one big festival. In addition to the 1 million Cologne citizens probably another million tourists will join. Due to this (positive) distraction I will write less than usual. However, I still consider this week’s publications noteworthy. Continue reading
Papers of the week – 15q11 duplications, Olig1 & Automated decision-making
A productive week in epilepsy genetics. Scientists and editors were certainly busy this week reporting novel variants and deletions as well the experimental and statistical advances for their interpretation.
A de novo GRIN2A missense mutation in early-onset epileptic encephalopathy. We and others have associated variants affecting the GRIN2A gene with a range of childhood focal epilepsy syndromes. Continue reading
Papers of the week – next-level mutation classifiers and 3’UTR variants in Dravet Syndrome
The future is now. This week’s publications of the week are about the next generation of in silico mutation interpretation, the power of a full genetic screen in neurodegenerative motor neuron diseases and a possible 3’UTR mutation in Dravet Syndrome. Continue reading
Papers of the week – WES Meta analysis, Dravet mice & large sequencing studies
Time flies – already thursday night again. Here are updates on study designs to identify rare pathogenic mutations in neurodevelopment diseases, an epilepsy animal model study as well as novel statistical frameworks for large genetic screens.
The placebo effect. In a recent paper in Science Translational Medicine the group of Kam-Hansen investigated the effect of altered placebo and drug labeling changes and its outcome in patients with episodic migraine. Their results suggest that the placebo accounted for more than 50% of the drug effect.
