Allele‐Specific Editing of a Dominant SCN8A Epilepsy Variant Protects against Seizures and Lethality in a Murine Model

W Yu, SF Hill, Y Huang, L Zhu, Y Demetriou… - Annals of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) can result from dominant,
gain of function variants of neuronal ion channels. More than 450 de novo missense variants …

Patients carrying pathogenic SCN8A variants with loss‐ and gain‐of‐function effects can be classified into five subgroups exhibiting varying developmental and …

JB Hack, JC Watkins, JM Schreiber, MF Hammer - Epilepsia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Phenotypic heterogeneity presents challenges in providing clinical care to patients
with pathogenic SCN8A variants, which underly a wide disease spectrum ranging from …

Cenobamate as add-on treatment for SCN8A developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

CE Gjerulfsen, MJ Oudin, F Furia, S Gverdtsiteli… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Objectives Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) caused by pathogenic
variants in SCN8A are associated with difficult-to-treat and early-onset seizures …