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childhood absence epilepsy type 4
Etiology:
- idiopathic
Pathology:
- generalized epilepsy
Genetics:
- associated with defects in GABRA1
Clinical manifestations:
- onset at age 6-7 years of age
- frequent absence seizures (several per day)
- during adolescence, tonic-clonic & myoclonic seizures develop
- absence seizures may either remit or persist into adulthood
Special laboratory:
- electroencephalogram (EEG):
- bilateral, synchronous, symmetric 3-Hz spike waves on EEG.
General
childhood absence epilepsy
Database Correlations
OMIM 611136
References
UniProt :accession P14867