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What genetic testing can be done for epilepsy?

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Complicated issue: Genetic testing for epilepsy has not reached main stream and is in part at the experimental stage. See this site for information and consult a neurologist at a major medical school. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3152152/.

Dr Fricke agreed

Answered 3/26/2013

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