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Feb 2025
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Genetic testing for epilepsy surgery: Dr...

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In the second episode of our genetics and epilepsy series, Sharp Waves explores how genetic insights can inform considerations and outcomes of epilepsy surgery. Dr. Alina Ivaniuk interviews Dr. Patrick Moloney, currently an epilepsy genomics fellow at the Chalfont Center for Epilepsy at University College London.

Selected publications:
Do germline genetic variants influence surgical outcomes in drug-resistant epilepsy? Epilepsy Res 2024

Genomics in the presurgical epilepsy evaluation. Epilepsy Res 2022

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