全世界目前有约2-4千万的人(占1.7％总人口),在40岁前患上各种类型的癫痫。据统计,在约9000种少见遗传病中,约有140种包含家族性的癫痫症状。为了发现这类遗传倾向如此明显的疾病与基因型的关系,尤他州大学(University of Utah)遗传学家M.Leppet领导的研究小组花了8年时间,最近终于发现两个与该病有关的基因。 There are currently about 2-4 million people in the world (1.7% of the total population) suffering from various types of epilepsy before age 40. It is estimated that out of about 9,000 rare genetic diseases, about 140 contain familial epilepsy. In an effort to find such a clear genetic predisposition toward genotypes, a team led by M. Reppere, a geneticist at the University of Utah, spent eight years and has recently found two more linked to the disease Of the gene.