Platform B – Genetics

Sunday, December 5, 2021
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There will be two concurrent sessions of selected key scientific abstracts. Authors will present a 10-minute overview of their work followed by a five-minute Q&A session.

Program:

Moderators: Andrew M. Tidball, PhD and Julie Ziobro, MD, PhD 

8:30 AM B.01 Cannabidiol Increases Seizure Resistance and Improves Behavior in an Scn8a Mouse Model | Andrew Escayg, PhD  

8:45 AM B.02 Common Risk Variants for Epilepsy are Enriched in Families Previously Targeted for Rare “Monogenic” Variant Discovery | Colin Ellis, MD 

9:00 am B.03 Making Absence Epilepsy by Combining Two Epilepsy Genes | Qinglong Miao, PhD 

9:15 AM B.04 An Expanded Genotype-Phenotype Analysis of 11,500 People With Epilepsy | David Lewis-Smith, MA(Cantab), MClinRes, MRCP 

9:30 AM B.05 Novel Epilepsy Loci Revealed by Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis in 64,000 Individuals | Ciaran Campbell, BA Mod 

9:45 AM B.06 Transethnic Evaluation of Copy Number Burden in Epilepsies from a Genome-Wide Study of 34,132 Subjects | Dennis Lal, PhD 

10:00 AM B.07 The ENVISION Study: An International, Prospective Natural History Study in Young Children with SCN1A+ Dravet Syndrome | Andreas Brunklaus, MD 

10:15 AM B.08 Electrobehavioral Phenotype and Pharmacosensitivity of GAT-1 Deficient Mice| Britta E. Lindquist, MD, PhD 

10:30 AM B.09 Assessing the Landscape of STXBP1-Related Disorders  | Julie Xian  

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