1. Polygenic risk scores as a marker for epilepsy risk across lifetime and after unspecified seizure events.
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Heyne HO, Pajuste FD, Wanner J, Daniel Onwuchekwa JI, Mägi R, Palotie A, Kälviainen R, and Daly MJ
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- Humans, Female, Male, Adult, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Young Adult, Adolescent, Epilepsy genetics, Epilepsy epidemiology, Biomarkers, Epilepsies, Partial genetics, Child, Aged, Longitudinal Studies, Electronic Health Records, Genetic Risk Score, Multifactorial Inheritance genetics, Seizures genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Epilepsy, Generalized genetics
- Abstract
A diagnosis of epilepsy has significant consequences for an individual but is often challenging in clinical practice. Novel biomarkers are thus greatly needed. Here, we investigated how common genetic factors (epilepsy polygenic risk scores, [PRSs]) influence epilepsy risk in detailed longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) of > 700k Finns and Estonians. We found that a high genetic generalized epilepsy PRS (PRS
GGE ) increased risk for genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) (hazard ratio [HR] 1.73 per PRSGGE standard deviation [SD]) across lifetime and within 10 years after an unspecified seizure event. The effect of PRSGGE was significantly larger on idiopathic generalized epilepsies, in females and for earlier epilepsy onset. Analogously, we found significant but more modest focal epilepsy PRS burden associated with non-acquired focal epilepsy (NAFE). Here, we outline the potential of epilepsy specific PRSs to serve as biomarkers after a first seizure event., (© 2024. The Author(s).)- Published
- 2024
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