Familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy in Mexico: Inheritance pattern and clinical features.

Purpose: The objectives of this study were to determine the inheritance pattern by which familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (FMTLE) is segregated in Mexican families, and to identify if there was an association between the clinical characteristics and the inheritance pattern.

Method: We included a total of 25 families with two or more members affected with MTLE during two years and elaborated a family pedigree for each family. The inheritance pattern was classified as autosomal dominant (AD) or autosomal recessive (AR), considering the affected members.

An Exploration of Social Cognition in Children with Different Degrees of Genetic Deletion in Williams Syndrome.

An explanation for the social dysfunction observed in Williams syndrome may be deficits in social cognition. This study explored aspects of social cognition in children with Williams syndrome with different genotypes. The 12 participants included one with a 1.

Cognitive, Behavioral, and Adaptive Profiles in Williams Syndrome With and Without Loss of GTF2IRD2.

Unlabelled: Williams syndrome (WS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that results from a heterozygous microdeletion on chromosome 7q11.23. Most of the time, the affected region contains ~1.