Family history of some of the patients with Eyelid Myoclonia with Absences (EMA). In the families of patients with EMA, there is a surprising abundance of phenotypes consistent with the GEFS+ spectrum (Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus).
Ingo Helbig
Child Neurology Fellow and epilepsy genetics researcher at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA and Department of Neuropediatrics, Kiel, Germany