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Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Infantile Epilepsies and the Impact of Genetic Diagnosis

Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Infantile Epilepsies and the Impact of Genetic Diagnosis: Gene-Shortening Time of Evaluation in Pediatric Epilepsy Services (Gene-STEPS)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 27 Apr 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The goal of this study is to discover new genetic causes of infantile epilepsies and evaluate the impact of these discoveries on infants with epilepsy and their families.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
600 (estimated)
First submitted
19 Nov 2024
Start date
2 Sept 2021
Primary completion date
Nov 2029
Lead sponsor
Boston Children's Hospital
Diseases
Epilepsy
NCT number
NCT06701084

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 600
  • From 2 Sept 2021 to the primary completion date, Nov 2029
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Deceased prior to enrollment
    • Parent Criteria Inclusion Criteria - Parent of eligible infant (see above)

Other illness

  • Simple febrile seizures
  • Acute provoked seizures (e.g., due to sepsis, hemorrhage, electrolyte abnormality, cerebral infarction, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, non-accidental injury)
  • Genetic or acquired cause of epilepsy already identified, including brain magnetic resonance imaging findings consistent with a specific genetic etiology (e.g., tuberous sclerosis complex)

Other

  • \- Not the legal guardian of the eligible infant

Who the study is looking for

  • Seizure onset at less than 12 months of age
  • Enrollment within 6 weeks of seizure-related presentation
  • Patient at Boston Children's Hospital

Criteria the registry did not label

  • Infant Criteria

Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Boston Children's Hospital
Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status		BostonUnited StatesRecruiting

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