About the Authors

Dennis Lal

Contributed equally to this work with: Dennis Lal, Eva M. Reinthaler, Borislav Dejanovic

Dennis.Lal@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eva M. Reinthaler

Contributed equally to this work with: Dennis Lal, Eva M. Reinthaler, Borislav Dejanovic

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Borislav Dejanovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Dennis Lal, Eva M. Reinthaler, Borislav Dejanovic

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Patrick May

Affiliation Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Holger Thiele

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Anna-Elina Lehesjoki

Affiliations Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Helsinki, Finland, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Research Programs Unit, Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Günter Schwarz

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Erik Riesch

Affiliation CeGaT GmbH—Centre for Genomics and Transcriptomics, Tübingen, Germany

M. Arfan Ikram

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, Neurology, Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Cornelia M. van Duijn

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology, Neurology, Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Andre G. Uitterlinden

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Albert Hofman

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Hannelore Steinböck

Affiliation Private Practice for Pediatrics, Vienna, Austria

Ursula Gruber-Sedlmayr

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Birgit Neophytou

Affiliation St. Anna Children’s Hospital, Department of Neuropediatrics, Vienna, Austria

Federico Zara

Affiliation Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Neuroscience, Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, Italy

Andreas Hahn

Affiliation Department of Neuropediatrics, University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

Genetic Commission of the Italian League against Epilepsy

Membership of the Genetic Commission of the Italian League against Epilepsy and the EuroEPINOMICS CoGIE Consortium are listed in the Acknowledgments.

EuroEPINOMICS CoGIE Consortium

Membership of the Genetic Commission of the Italian League against Epilepsy and the EuroEPINOMICS CoGIE Consortium are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Padhraig Gormley

Affiliations Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Felicitas Becker

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Yvonne G. Weber

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Maria Roberta Cilio

Affiliation Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wolfram S. Kunz

Affiliation Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Roland Krause

Affiliation Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Fritz Zimprich

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Johannes R. Lemke

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Peter Nürnberg

Affiliations Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas Sander

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Holger Lerche

Affiliation Department of Neurology and Epileptology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Bernd A. Neubauer

Affiliation Department of Neuropediatrics, University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL EMR BD BAN. Performed the experiments: DL EMR BD. Analyzed the data: DL EMR BD ER JRL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: A-EL MAI CMvD AGU A. Hofman HS UGS BN F. Zara A. Hahn PM HT GS FB YW MRC WK FZ AU ER JRL [Genetic Commission of the Italian League against Epilepsy] [EuroEPINOMICS CoGIE Consortium]. Wrote the paper: DL EMR BD RK FZ JRL PN TS HL BAN PG. Revising and reviewing the manuscript: DL EMR BD PM HT A-EL GS ER MAI CMvd AGU A. Hofman HS UGS BN F. Zara A. Hahn PG FB YW MRC WK RK F. Zimprich JRL PN TS HL BAN.