Table 4

Prioritised candidate variants in genes with anecdotal evidence for an association with non-acquired focal epilepsy

Patient ID, sex, age at onset (years)Epilepsy phenotypeGene (transcript) variantsIn silico (CADD, pph2 and SIFT)Allele frequency (gnomAD)
13, f, 3HS/HA-TLE RBFOX1
NM_145891.2:
c.1013G>A
p.(Arg338His)
35,
D, T
0.000012
47, m, 15MRI-negative UFE KCNA2
NM_004974.3:
c.128G>A
p.(Arg43Gln)
32, D, D0.000003976
52, f, 5MRI-negative TLE MTOR
NM_004958.3:
c.2069C>T
p.(Ala690Val)
28.2, PD, T0.00001194
90, m, 34MRI-negative TLE SCN3A
NM_001081676.1:
c.770G>A
p.(Cys257Tyr)
27.3, D, D0.000003977
92, f, 14MRI-negative UFE MTOR
NM_004958.3
c.6649C>T p.(Arg2217Trp)
35, D, D0
110, f, 15HS/HA-TLE KCNA2
NM_004974.3:
c.209A>T
p.(Asp70Val)
25.5, D, D0
  • Patients with multiple rare variants are highlighted in grey.

  • AED, antiepileptic drug; CADD, combined annotation-dependent depletion; f, female; gnomAD, Genome Aggregation Database; HA, hippocampal atrophy; HS, hippocampal sclerosis; m, male; N/A, not applicable; OLE, occipital lobe epilepsy; pph2, PolyPhen-2 (B, benign; D, probably damaging; PD, possibly damaging); SIFT, sorting intolerant from tolerant (D, deleterious; T, tolerated); TLE, temporal lobe epilepsy; UFE, unclassified focal epilepsy; VUS, variant of uncertain significance.