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Confirming an expanded spectrum of SCN2A mutations: a case series Volume 16, issue 1, March 2014

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Division of Child Neurology, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
* Correspondence: Eric D. Marsh Division of Child Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Abramson Research Building- Room 502E, 3615 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia PA 19014, USA

Mutations in sodium channel genes are highly associated with epilepsy. Mutation of SCN1A, the gene encoding the voltage gated sodium channel (VGSC) alpha subunit type 1 (Nav1.1), causes Dravet syndrome spectrum disorders. Mutations in SCN2A have been identified in patients with benign familial neonatal-infantile epilepsy (BFNIE), generalised epilepsy with febrile seizures plus (GEFS+), and a small number of reported cases of other infantile-onset severe intractable epilepsy. Here, we report three patients with infantile-onset severe intractable epilepsy found to have de novo mutations in SCN2A. While a causal role for these mutations cannot be directly established, these findings contribute to growing evidence that mutation of SCN2A is associated with a range of epilepsy phenotypes including severe infantile-onset epilepsy.