New research supported by the EU-funded IGENEE and EPITARGET projects has discovered a specific gene network in the brain that is associated with epilepsy, raising hopes that new treatments for the condition can be developed.
Published in the journal ‘Genome Biology’ and led from Imperial College London, the study details an ‘epileptic network’ of 320 genes, called M30 that is associated with epilepsy. The genes in the network are thought to be involved in how brain cells communicate with each other.