By Karen Blum
Genetic diagnoses for infants and very young children presenting with epilepsy can have a meaningful impact on medical care and prognosis, according to recent research (Pediatr Neurol 2023;138:71-80) from Boston Children’s Hospital.
Gene panels and exome sequencing for seizures are becoming more common for precision clinical diagnosis in epilepsy, according to Heather Olson, MD, a pediatric neurologist at the hospital and an instructor of neurology at Harvard Medical