EPILEPSY, CHILDHOOD ABSENCE, SUSCEPTIBILITY TO, 5

General Information (adopted from Orphanet):

Synonyms, Signs: ECA5
Number of Symptoms 2
OrphanetNr:
OMIM Id: 612269
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Prevalence, inheritance and age of onset:

Prevalence: No data available.
Inheritance: Autosomal dominant inheritance
[Omim]
Age of onset:

Disease classification (adopted from Orphanet):

Parent Diseases: No data available.

Symptom Information: Sort by abundance 

1
(HPO:0002121) Absence seizures 62 / 7739
2
(HPO:0000006) Autosomal dominant inheritance 2518 / 7739

Associated genes:

ClinVar (via SNiPA)

Gene symbol Variation Clinical significance Reference

Additional Information:

Clinical Description OMIM Tanaka et al. (2008) reported 4 unrelated families of Mexican or Honduran origin with childhood absence epilepsy inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern with incomplete penetrance. Age at onset ranged from 2 to 11 years and was characterized ...
Molecular genetics OMIM Urak et al. (2006) screened 45 childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) patients for sequence variations in the GABRB3 gene. The authors defined 4 haplotypes between the promoter region and intron 3. A transmission disequilibrium test demonstrated significant association of ...