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ReviewIndian journal of pediatrics2021

Genetic Testing in Pediatric Epilepsy.

Ishwar C Verma, Sameer Bhatia, Veronica Arora

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Review in Indian journal of pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A novel mutation inFrontiers in neuroscience · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Epilepsy in Children-Important Facets.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ishwar C VermaInstitute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, 110060, India. icverma@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1944-5539
Sameer BhatiaInstitute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, 110060, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4997-3722
Veronica AroraInstitute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, 110060, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2874-2917
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the advent of next generation sequencing technology there has been a spurt of papers on genetics in epilepsy in children. Genetic testing has now become an essential part of clinical practice in epilepsy. It helps in reaching an etiological diagnosis, providing prognostic information, guiding therapy precisely indicated for the patient and avoiding drugs that may worsen the seizures. Once the pathogenic variant has been found, this enables determining and counseling the risk of recurrence to the patient and other relatives at risk. It also makes available different reproductive options such as prenatal diagnosis or pre-implantation diagnosis. The authors describe the benefits, the clinical situations that require genetic testing, the types of genetic tests that are available, and how to choose the appropriate test and their likely yields. Genetic counseling, both pre- and post-test that should be provided is described briefly. Two useful tables are included that depict the therapy for variants in different epilepsy genes.

Indexed as

EpilepsyGenetic TestingChildCounselingGenetic CounselingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansBenefitsEpilepsy genesGenetic counselingGenetic testing technologyIndicationsYield

Identifiers

PMID33090324
OpenAlexW3094470516

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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