Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

The International League Against Epilepsy Consortium on Complex Epilepsies; Abou-Khalil, Bassel; Auce, Pauls; Avbersek, Andreja; Bahlo, Melanie; Balding, David J.; Bast, Thomas; Baum, Larry; Becker, Albert J.; Becker, Felicitas; Berghuis, Bianca; Berkovic, Samuel F.; Boysen, Katja E.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Brody, Lawrence C.; Buono, Russell J.; Campbell, Ellen; Cascino, Gregory D.; Catarino, Claudia B.; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Cherny, Stacey S.; Chinthapalli, Krishna; Coffey, Alison J.; Compston, Alastair; Coppola, Antonietta; Cossette, Patrick; Craig, John J.; de Haan, Gerrit-Jan; De Jonghe, Peter; de Kovel, Carolien G. F.; Delanty, Norman; Depondt, Chantal; Devinsky, Orrin; Dlugos, Dennis J.; Doherty, Colin P.; Elger, Christian E.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Ferraro, Thomas N.; Feucht, Martha; Francis, Ben; Franke, Andre; French, Jacqueline A.; Freytag, Saskia; Gaus, Verena; Geller, Eric B.; Gieger, Christian; Glauser, Tracy; Glynn, Simon; Goldstein, David B.; Gui, Hongsheng

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07524-z

Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

The epilepsies affect around 65 million people worldwide and have a substantial missing heritability component. We report a genome-wide mega-analysis involving 15,212 individuals with epilepsy and 29,677 controls, which reveals 16 genome-wide significant loci, of which 11 are novel. Using various…