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Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
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Genetic landscape of malformations of cortical development with refractory epilepsy in Taiwan

Joint Event on 5th World Congress on Parkinsons & Huntington Disease & 5th International Conference on Epilepsy & Treatment

Yo-Tsen Liu

National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism

Abstract
Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are a group of developmental disorders frequently causing epilepsy. Although next generation sequencing can help identify substantial genetic variants, a correct genetic diagnosis of MCD relies on the correlations with neuropathology. I will report the genetic landscape of MCD with refractory epilepsy (RE) whose diagnosis were firmly established in a multidisciplinary epilepsy team at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan. Sixty-six patients were recruited. Their MCD types include: FCD (51, 77.3%), heterotopia (4, 6.06%), polymicrogyri, Dandy-Walker malformation and lissencephaly. Tuberous sclerosis complex was not included. These patients were first screened by targeted sequencing (TS) of 66 genes causative for MCD and epilepsy encephalopathy. For those with a potential candidate variant identified, they were submitted to whole exome sequencing to confirm the variant is the best pathogenic candidate. Reported pathogenic variant or novel but potentially disease-causative variants were identified in 28 patients (42%). Among them, nine were familial cases (32%). In the 38 genetic not-assigned individuals, only two had a positive family history (5.3%). Nine variants (32/1%) occurred in the GATOR1 complex genes (DEPDC5/NPRL2/NPRL3). The hit rate was the highest, reaching 78% (7/9), in severe and diffuse MCD, like Dandy-Walker malformation and lissencephaly. For FCD, the hit rate was 55% (28/51). Our results supported that rapid screening by tTS of known disease-causative genes is efficient to enhance genetic diagnosis of MCD, particularly in severe and diffuse MCD and FCD. Brain MRI and neuropathology are essential to determine the pathogenicity of identified variants.
Biography

Yo-Tsen Liu earned her MD at National Taiwan University, Taiwan and completed her neurological residency training and became a neurology consultant at Taipei Veterans General Hospital (TVGH). After winning “Studying Abroad Scholarship” supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, she studied her PhD at Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK in 2010~2014. She is now a neurology consultant at Division of Epilepsy, Neurological Institute, TVGH and Assistant professor at Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. Her research interests are the applications of next-generation sequencing in neurological diseases, focusing on epilepsy and movement disorders.

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