GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture – Nature Genetics

Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Remi Stevelink, Dorothee Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenite, Bobby P. C. Koeleman, Dick Lindhout & Anja C. M. Sonsma

School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Ciarán Campbell, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Norman Delanty, Hany El-Naggar, Austin Lacey & Peter Widdess-Walsh

The FutureNeuro Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Ciarán Campbell, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Norman Delanty, Colin P. Doherty, Hany El-Naggar, Austin Lacey & Peter Widdess-Walsh

Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Siwei Chen, Claire Churchhouse, Mark J. Daly, Yen-Chen A. Feng, Daniel P. Howrigan, Mitja I. Kurki, Benjamin M. Neale, Aarno Palotie & Wei Zhou

Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Siwei Chen, Claire Churchhouse, Mark J. Daly, Yen-Chen A. Feng, Namrata Gupta, Henrike O. Heyne, Daniel P. Howrigan, Mitja I. Kurki, Benjamin M. Neale, Aarno Palotie & Wei Zhou

Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Bassel Abou-Khalil, Kevin F. Haas & R. S. Taneja

Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Oluyomi M. Adesoji, Michael Nothnagel, Peter Nürnberg & Thomas Sander

Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Zaid Afawi, Ilan Blatt & Amos D. Korczyn

Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Elisabetta Amadori, Ganna Balagura, Antonella Riva, Marcello Scala, Paolo Scudieri, Pasquale Striano & Federico Zara

IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy

Elisabetta Amadori, Ganna Balagura, Michele Iacomino, Francesca Madia, Antonella Riva, Marcello Scala, Paolo Scudieri, Pasquale Striano & Federico Zara

Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Alison Anderson, Patrick Kwan, Terence J. O’Brien, Slavé Petrovski, K. Meng Tan & Marian Todaro

Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Alfred Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Alison Anderson, Patrick Kwan, Terence J. O’Brien & Marian Todaro

Neurology Department, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Newport, UK

Joseph Anderson

Adult Genetic Epilepsy Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Danielle M. Andrade & Quratulain Zulfiqar Ali

Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation, National Research Council, Cosenza, Italy

Grazia Annesi

St. George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Pauls Auce

Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK

Andreja Avbersek, Simona Balestrini, Vera Braatz, Claudia B. Catarino, Krishna Chinthapalli, Jennifer Jamnadas-Khoda, Dalia Kasperavičiūte, Costin Leu, Josemir W. Sander, Sanjay M. Sisodiya & Sara Zagaglia

Population Health and Immunity Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Melanie Bahlo & Karen L. Oliver

Department of Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Melanie Bahlo & Karen L. Oliver

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Melanie Bahlo

Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Mark D. Baker, Beata Fonferko-Shadrach & William O. Pickrell

Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Chalfont-St-Peter, UK

Simona Balestrini, Vera Braatz, Josemir W. Sander, Sanjay M. Sisodiya & Sara Zagaglia

Pediatric Neurology, Neurogenetics and Neurobiology Unit and Laboratories, Children’s Hospital A. Meyer, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Carmen Barba, Claudia Bianchini, Viola Doccini, Renzo Guerrini, Davide Mei, Martino Montomoli, Elena Parrini & Annalisa Vetro

University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Karen Barboza

APHM, Timone Hospital, Epileptology and Cerebral Rhythmology, Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, INS, Inst Neurosci Syst, Marseille, France

Fabrice Bartolomei

Epilepsy Center Kork, Kehl-Kork, Germany

Thomas Bast & Bernhard J. Steinhoff

Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Bast & Bernhard J. Steinhoff

Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokulam, Hong Kong

Larry Baum, Stacey S. Cherny & Pak Sham

The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Larry Baum

Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Tobias Baumgartner, Christian E. Elger, Kerstin Hallmann, Wolfram S. Kunz, Rainer Surges, Randi von Wrede & Gábor Zsurka

Department of Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Betül Baykan, Nerses Bebek & Yeşim Kesim

Department of Genetics, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Betül Baykan & Nerses Bebek

Section for Translational Epilepsy Research, Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany

Albert J. Becker & Susanne Schoch

Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Felicitas Becker

Epilepsy Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Caitlin A. Bennett, Samuel F. Berkovic, Stephanie L. Leech, Karen L. Oliver, Brigid M. Regan & Ingrid E. Scheffer

Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Zwolle, The Netherlands

Bianca Berghuis

Department of Neurology, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Ahmad Beydoun & Wassim Nasreddine

IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Francesca Bisulli, Lidia Di Vito, Lorenzo Ferri, Tania Giangregorio, Laura Licchetta, Raffaella Minardi, Barbara Mostacci, Carlotta Stipa & Paolo Tinuper

Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Francesca Bisulli, Lorenzo Ferri, Lorenzo Muccioli, Federica Pondrelli & Paolo Tinuper

Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel

Ilan Blatt

Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Dheeraj R. Bobbili, Emadeldin Hassanin, Roland Krause, Zied Landoulsi & Patrick May

Department of Pediatric Neurology, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Ingo Borggraefe

Epilepsy Center Munich, Munich, Germany

Ingo Borggraefe

Department of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Christian Bosselmann, Christian Hengsbach, Josua Kegele, Stephen Lauxmann, Holger Lerche, Sarah Rau & Yvonne G. Weber

Center for Applied Genomics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Jonathan P. Bradfield, Russell J. Buono & Hakon Hakonarson

Quantinuum Research LLC, Wayne, PA, USA

Jonathan P. Bradfield

Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Knut Brockmann

National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Lawrence C. Brody & Faith Pangilinan

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

Russell J. Buono & Thomas N. Ferraro

Department of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Russell J. Buono

Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Robyn M. Busch, Dennis Lal & Costin Leu

Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Robyn M. Busch, Lisa Ferguson, Lara Jehi, Dennis Lal & Imad M. Najm

Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Robyn M. Busch, Lara Jehi & Imad M. Najm

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Hande Caglayan

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK

Ellen Campbell

Integrated Diagnostics for Epilepsy, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy

Laura Canafoglia

Hereditary Research Lab, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, Palestine

Christina Canavati & Moien Kanaan

Division of Epilepsy, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Gregory D. Cascino

Unit of Genetics of Neurodegenerative and Metabolic Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Barbara Castellotti

Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T, Cambridge, MA, USA

Felecia Cerrato, Claire Churchhouse, Caroline Cusick, Mark J. Daly, Yen-Chen A. Feng, Daniel P. Howrigan, Mitja I. Kurki, Dennis Lal, Costin Leu, Benjamin M. Neale, Aarno Palotie & Wei Zhou

Hôpital Lariboisière, Dept of Neurosurgery-Paris-Cité University, Paris, France

Francine Chassoux

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Stacey S. Cherny

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Ching-Lung Cheung & Gloria H.-Y. Li

Department of Pediatric Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Branch, and College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

I-Jun Chou, Po-Cheng Hung & Kuang-Lin Lin

Kids Research, Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Seo-Kyung Chung

Neurology Research Group, Swansea University Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

Seo-Kyung Chung & Mark I. Rees

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Peggy O. Clark & Tracy Glauser

Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Andrew J. Cole & Christopher M. McGraw

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK

Alastair Compston

Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Antonietta Coppola

Division of Neurology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mahgenn Cosico, Dennis J. Dlugos, Mark Fitzgerald, Ethan Goldberg, Ingo Helbig, Naomi Lewin, David Lewis-Smith & Priya Vaidiswaran

The Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (ENGIN), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mahgenn Cosico, Mark Fitzgerald, Ethan Goldberg, Ingo Helbig, Naomi Lewin & Priya Vaidiswaran

Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Patrick Cossette

Department of Neurology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK

John J. Craig

Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Mark J. Daly, Henrike O. Heyne, Mitja I. Kurki & Aarno Palotie

Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Lea K. Davis & Donald Hucks

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Lea K. Davis

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Lea K. Davis

Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Lea K. Davis & Donald Hucks

Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Heemstede, The Netherlands

Gerrit-Jan de Haan, Dick Lindhout & Josemir W. Sander

Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Norman Delanty, Hany El-Naggar, Austin Lacey & Peter Widdess-Walsh

Department of Neurology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Chantal Depondt

Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Lille University Medical Center, University of Lille, Lille, France

Philippe Derambure

Department of Neurology, New York University/Langone Health, New York City, NY, USA

Orrin Devinsky

Department of Neurology, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Colin P. Doherty

Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Colin A. Ellis, Mark Fitzgerald & Ingo Helbig

Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Johan G. Eriksson

Human Genetics Training Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Annika Faucon & David Wu

Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Yen-Chen A. Feng

Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Chen A. Feng

Department of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Thomas N. Ferraro

Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Martha Feucht

Institute of Neurology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University ‘Magna Graecia’, Catanzaro, Italy

Francesco Fortunato & Antonio Gambardella

Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Silvana Franceschetti

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Andre Franke, Ingo Helbig & Manuela Pendziwiat

Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA

Jacqueline A. French

Department of Pediatric Neuroscience, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Elena Freri, Tiziana Granata & Francesca Ragona

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Neuroscience Research Center, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy

Monica Gagliardi

Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery at St. Barnabas, Livingston, NJ, USA

Eric B. Geller

Department of Neurology, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Rikshospitalet Medical Centre, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Leif Gjerstad & Erik Taubøll

Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Alicia Goldman

Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbia, OH, USA

David A. Greenberg

Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Hakon Hakonarson

Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany

Kerstin Hallmann

Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Emadeldin Hassanin

Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Manu Hegde, Heidi E. Kirsch, Robert C. Knowlton & Daniel H. Lowenstein

Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Erin L. Heinzen

Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Erin L. Heinzen

Department of Neuropediatrics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany

Ingo Helbig, Hiltrud Muhle, Manuela Pendziwiat, Annika Rademacher, Ulrich Stephani & Andreas van Baalen

Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ingo Helbig & David Lewis-Smith

Hasso Plattner Institute, Digital Health Center, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Henrike O. Heyne

Hasso Plattner Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA

Henrike O. Heyne

General Medical Research Center, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Shinichi Hirose

Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Edouard Hirsch

Danish Epilepsy Centre, Dianalund, Denmark

Helle Hjalgrim & Rikke S. Møller

Institute of Regional Health Services Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Helle Hjalgrim & Rikke S. Møller

Swiss Epilepsy Center, Klinik Lengg, Zurich, Switzerland

Lukas L. Imbach

National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Institute of Epilepsy and Neurological Disorder, Shizuoka, Japan

Yushi Inoue

Department of Pediatrics, Fukuoka Sanno Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

Atsushi Ishii

Department of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, Institute of Mental Health University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Jennifer Jamnadas-Khoda

Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK

Michael R. Johnson

Kuopio Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland

Reetta Kälviäinen, Anne-Mari Kantanen & Anni Saarela

Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Reetta Kälviäinen, Anni Saarela & Oskari Timonen

Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Yoichiro Kamatani

The Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Masahiro Kanai

Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

Masahiro Kanai & Yukinori Okada

Department of Child Neurology, Medical School, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

Bülent Kara

Neuroscience Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Symon M. Kariuki & Charles R. J. C. Newton

Department of Public Health, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

Symon M. Kariuki & Charles R. J. C. Newton

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Symon M. Kariuki & Charles R. J. C. Newton

Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Epilepsy Medical Center, Showa University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuhiro Kato

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Nathalie Khoueiry-Zgheib

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Chontelle King & Lynette G. Sadleir

Epilepsy Center Hessen-Marburg, Department of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Karl M. Klein, Susanne Knake, Philipp S. Reif, Felix Rosenow, Adam Strzelczyk & Felix Zahnert

Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Karl M. Klein, Heinz Krestel, Philipp S. Reif, Felix Rosenow, Susanne Schubert-Bast, Adam Strzelczyk & Sophie von Brauchitsch

Departments of Clinical Neurosciences, Medical Genetics and Community Health Sciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Karl M. Klein

LOEWE Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Karl M. Klein, Susanne Knake, Heinz Krestel, Philipp S. Reif, Felix Rosenow, Susanne Schubert-Bast, Adam Strzelczyk & Sophie von Brauchitsch

Neuropediatric Clinic and Clinic for Neurorehabilitation, Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents, Vogtareuth, Germany

Gerhard Kluger

Research Institute for Rehabilitation, Transition, and Palliation, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

Gerhard Kluger

Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Andreas Koupparis, Ioanna Kousiappa, Savvas S. Papacostas & George A. Tanteles

Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Martin Krenn & Fritz Zimprich

Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Heinz Krestel & Christoph J. Schankin

Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Heinz Krestel

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

Ilona Krey & Johannes R. Lemke

Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Wolfram S. Kunz & Gábor Zsurka

Neuropediatrics Department, Bonifatius Hospital Lingen, Lingen, Germany

Gerhard Kurlemann

Department of Neurology, Hofstra-Northwell Medical School, New York City, NY, USA

Ruben Kuzniecky

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Patrick Kwan

Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images (BIOMORF), University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Angelo Labate

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Yu-Lung Lau & Wanling Yang

Folkhälsan Research Center and Medical Faculty, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Anna-Elina Lehesjoki

Department of Medical Genetics, Hospices Civils de Lyon and University of Lyon, Lyon, France

Gaetan Lesca

Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

David Lewis-Smith & Rhys H. Thomas

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

David Lewis-Smith & Rhys H. Thomas

Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hum, Hong Kong

Gloria H.-Y. Li

Neuroscience Department, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Titusville, NJ, USA

Qingqin S. Li

Child Neurology, New Children’s Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Tarja Linnankivi

Pediatric Research Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Tarja Linnankivi

Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Tarja Linnankivi

Department of Translational Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotecnology, Campinas, Brazil

Iscia Lopes-Cendes

Department of Medicine, Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

Colin H. T. Lui

deCODE genetics, Reykjavík, Iceland

Sigurdur Magnusson, Hreinn Stefansson, Kári Stefansson & Unnur Unnsteinsdóttir

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Anthony G. Marson & Nasir Mirza

Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

James L. Mills

School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Anne M. Molloy

Epilepsy Center for Children, University Hospital Ruppin-Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin, Germany

Karen Müller-Schlüter

Pediatric Neurology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Bernd Neubauer

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany

Markus M. Nöthen

University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Michael Nothnagel

Laboratory for Systems Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan

Yukinori Okada

Department of Neurology, Landspitalinn University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland

Elías Ólafsson

Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey

Çiğdem Özkara

Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

Carlos N. Pato & Michele T. Pato

Centre for Genomics Research, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK

Slavé Petrovski

Department of Neurology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea Bay University Bay Health Board, Swansea, UK

William O. Pickrell & Rob H. W. Powell

Epilepsy Genetics Program, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Rebecca Pinsky, Annapurna Poduri & Beth R. Sheidley

IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Medical Genetics Unit, Bologna, Italy

Tommaso Pippucci

Department of Neurology, Gardner Neuroscience Institute, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Michael Privitera

Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Rodney Radtke

Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mark I. Rees

Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology, Hospices Civils de Lyon and University of Lyon, Lyon, France

Sylvain Rhelms

Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM, Lyon, France

Sylvain Rhelms

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Philippe Ryvlin

Department of Neurology, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Clinic, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Sander & Bettina Schmitz

Department of Endocrinology, Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Theresa Scattergood

Departments of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Steven C. Schachter

Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munchen, Germany

Christoph J. Schankin

Department of Neurology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Ingrid E. Scheffer

Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Andreas Schulze-Bonhage

Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Jerry J. Shih

School of Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Graeme J. Sills

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Michael C. Smith

Department of Neurology, Alan Richens Epilepsy Unit, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Philip E. Smith

UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK

Doug Speed

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Doug Speed

Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Michael R. Sperling

Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

William C. Stewart

The Research Institute, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

William C. Stewart

CWZ Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hans Stroink

Department of Neurodevelopmental Disorder Genetics, Institute of Brain Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya, Japan

Toshimitsu Suzuki & Kazuhiro Yamakawa

Laboratory for Neurogenetics, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan

Toshimitsu Suzuki & Kazuhiro Yamakawa

Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Liu Lin Thio & Judith Weisenberg

Institute for Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

G. Neil Thomas

Department of Child Neurology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

Pınar Topaloğlu & Zuhal Yapıcı

C. Mondino National Neurological Institute, Pavia, Italy

Rossana Tozzi

Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Meng-Han Tsai

Centre for Medical Genetics, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania

Birute Tumiene

Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Birute Tumiene & Algirdas Utkus

Department of Child Neurology, Medical School, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Dilsad Turkdogan

Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neurology, Brain and Cognition Research Center, University Hospital and University of Toulouse, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France

Luc Valton

Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Eileen P. G. Vining

Department of Neurology, Admiraal De Ruyter Hospital, Goes, The Netherlands

Frank Visscher

MRC/Wits Rural Public Health & Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Ryan G. Wagner

Department of Neurology and Epileptology, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Yvonne G. Weber & Stefan Wolking

Applied & Translational Neurogenomics Group, VIB Center for Molecular Neurology, VIB, Antwerp, Belgium

Sarah Weckhuysen

Department of Neurology, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Sarah Weckhuysen

Translational Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Sarah Weckhuysen

Department of Neurology, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Michael Weller

Department of Pediatric Neurology, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

Markus Wolff

Bezmialem Vakif University, Institute of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Istanbul, Turkey

Emrah Yücesan