RESEARCH ARTICLE Genetic susceptibility in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: Systematic review of genetic association studies Bruna Priscila dos Santos1, Chiara Rachel Maciel Marinho1, Thalita Ewellyn Batista Sales Marques1, Layanne Kelly Gomes Angelo1, MaõÂsa Vieira da Silva Malta1, Marcelo Duzzioni2, Olagide Wagner de Castro3, João Pereira Leite4, Fabiano Timbo Barbosa5, Daniel Leite Go es GitaõÂ1* a1111111111 1 Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences and Health, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil, 2 Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biological a1111111111 Sciences and Health, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil, 3 Department of Physiology, a1111111111 Institute of Biological Sciences and Health, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil, 4 Division a1111111111 of Neurology, Department of Neurosciences and Behavioral Sciences, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, a1111111111 University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 5 School of Medicine, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Citation: Santos BPd, Marinho CRM, Marques Abstract TEBS, Angelo LKG, Malta MVdS, Duzzioni M, et al. (2017) Genetic susceptibility in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: Systematic review of genetic association Background studies. PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179629. https://doi. Several genetic association investigations have been performed over the last three decades org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179629 to identify variants underlying Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME). Here, we evaluate the Editor: Klaus Brusgaard, Odense University accumulating findings and provide an updated perspective of these studies. Hospital, DENMARK Received: September 9, 2016 Methodology Accepted: June 1, 2017 A systematic literature search was conducted using the PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Lilacs, Published: June 21, 2017 epiGAD, Google Scholar and Sigle up to February 12, 2016.