Sex-specific disease modifiers in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

• Main Authors: Shakeshaft, Amy, Panjwani, Naim, Collingwood, Amber, Crudgington, Holly, Hall, Anna, Andrade, Danielle M., Beier, Christoph P., Fong, Choong Yi, Gardella, Elena, Gesche, Joanna, Greenberg, David A., Hamandi, Khalid, Koht, Jeanette, Lim, Kheng Seang, Moller, Rikke S., Ng, Ching Ching, Orsini, Alessandro, Rees, Mark, Rubboli, Guido, Selmer, Kaja K., Striano, Pasquale, Syvertsen, Marte, Thomas, Rhys H., Zarubova, Jana, Richardson, Mark P., Strug, Lisa J., Pal, Deb K.
• Format: Article
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
• Subjects: Q Science (General); T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/33345/

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) is a common idiopathic generalised epilepsy with variable seizure prognosis and sex differences in disease presentation. Here, we investigate the combined epidemiology of sex, seizure types and precipitants, and their influence on prognosis in JME, through cross-sec...