New gene discovery unlocks mystery to epilepsy in infants

A team of Australian researchers has come a step closer to unlocking a mystery that causes epileptic seizures in babies.Benign familial infantile epilepsy has been recognized for some time as infantile seizures, without fever, that run in families but the cause has so far eluded researchers. However, clinical researchers at the University of Melbourne and Florey Neurosciences Institute and molecular geneticists at the University of South Australia have discovered a gene.