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When children have febrile seizures, genes are involved

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Researchers from the iPSYCH psychiatry programme in Denmark have been involved in a major international study and have discovered new genes that increase the risk of febrile seizures

Seeing their child have a febrile seizure is a very scary experience for parents who often think their child is dying

The research has just been published in the neurological journal Brain

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The researchers analyzed DNA variants in 7,635 children from Denmark and Australia who had experienced one or more febrile seizures

Not related to mental disorder

The researchers also examined the association between febrile seizures and risk of mental disorders

"There are concerns that children may develop psychiatric disorders from febrile seizures in the long term, but we have not found that there is a significant difference in genetic susceptibility to febrile seizures in people with psychiatric disorders compared to people without febrile seizures.

Although the researchers were unable to find an association between genes associated with febrile seizures and those associated with psychiatric disorders, they did find an association between febrile seizures and epilepsy

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Febrile seizures are seizures in children under five years of age with a fever temperature higher than 38.

Original title:

Genome-wide association study of febrile seizures implicates fever response and neuronal excitability genes

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