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ANNALS OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 1338-1344Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/acn3.50815
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- Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council [GNT1128933]
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute
- Campbell Edwards Trust
- Brain Foundation
- Independent Research Institute Infrastructure Support Scheme
- Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Program
- Melbourne Children's Clinician Scientist Fellowship scheme
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Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) causes drug-resistant epilepsy and is associated with pathogenic variants in mTOR pathway genes. How germline variants cause these focal lesions is unclear, however a germline + somatic 2-hit model is hypothesized. In a boy with drug-resistant epilepsy, FCD, and a germline DEPDC5 pathogenic variant, we show that a second-hit DEPDC5 variant is limited to dysmorphic neurons, and the somatic mutation load correlates with both dysmorphic neuron density and the epileptogenic zone. These findings provide new insights into the molecular and cellular correlates of FCD determining drug-resistant epilepsy and refine conceptualization of the epileptogenic zone.
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