Clinical features and genetic analysis of intellectual disability in children with epilepsy of unknown causes
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-428X.2017.08.011
- VernacularTitle:不明原因智力障碍共患癫痫患者的临床及遗传学分析
- Author:
Pu MIAO
;
Jing PENG
;
Chen CHEN
;
Lihong LIAO
;
Lifen YANG
;
Fang HE
;
Lidan SHAN
;
Shimeng CHEN
;
Fei YIN
- Keywords:
Intellectual disability;
Epilepsy;
Genetic test
- From:
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics
2017;32(8):603-606
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the clinical features,genetic causes and prognosis of intellectual disability with epilepsy(ID-E)in children.Methods The data of unknown causes of ID-E children(n=40)who were identified in Department of Pediatrics,Xiangya Hospital of Central South University from March 2015 to March 2016 were respectively analyzed,and follow-up studies were performed to investigate the epilepsy control and intellectual deve-lopment.Results Forty unexplained ID-E included 25(62.5%)male,and 34(85.0%)cases were severe intellectual disability patients.The onset age of epilepsy was 0.16 to 8.00 years old,median age was 1.5 years old.Twenty cases(50.0%)had slow electroencephalogram background,and 22 cases(55.0%)had focal spikes.Ten cases(25.0%)had abnormal cranial images,with brain dysplasia or atrophy.Follow-up lasted from 0.58 to 1.58 years,and 19 cases(47.5%)had seizure control.Twenty-five cases(62.5%)had used at least 2 anti-epilepsy drugs during follow-up,and 19 cases(47.5%)had drug refractory epilepsy.Improvement of mental or motor development in epilepsy controlled group and the uncontrolled group were 12 cases(63.2%)and 2 cases(9.5%).There were separately 8 cases(8/40 cases,20.0%)and 3 cases(3/16 cases,18.8%)diagnosed respectively by whole genome-wide analysis of copy number variants(CNVs)and gene-panel whose CNVs test findings were negative.Conclusions ID-E patients of unknown causes have the following clinical features:they were mostly found in male patients with severe intellectual disability,and drug refractory epilepsy patients have rather high percentage;well controlling of epilepsy is useful for improvement of mental and motor development.Genetic analysis is significant for control and prognosis of ID-E patients,and genome-wide CNVs have high positive rates which can be used as first-tier test to detect genetic etiology of ID-E of unknown cause.