About the Authors

Erin L. Heinzen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Corresponding author on behalf of the Epi4K Consortium, epi4k@columbia.edu

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Adam C. O'Neill

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Xiaolin Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Andrew S. Allen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Statistical Genetics and Genomics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Melanie Bahlo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health and Immunity Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Jamel Chelly

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pôle de Biologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, IGBMC, INSERM U964, CNRS UMR 7104, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France

Ming Hui Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiology and Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

William B. Dobyns

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Saskia Freytag

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Renzo Guerrini

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neuroscience Department, Children's Hospital Anna Meyer-University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Richard J. Leventer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neurology Royal Children’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Annapurna Poduri

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen P. Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children's Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Christopher A. Walsh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, 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

Mengqi Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

for the Epi4K Consortium

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

The full list of Epi4K Consortium, Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project members and contributors are listed in the acknowledgments.

Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project

Roles Writing – review & editing

The full list of Epi4K Consortium, Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project members and contributors are listed in the acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Stephen Petrou holds equity and is a scientific founder of Praxis Precision Medicines and RogCon. David Goldstein is a founder and holds equity in Pairnomix and Praxis Precision Medicines, and has research funding from Janssen, Gilead, Biogen, AstraZeneca, and UCB. Erin Heinzen has research funding from AstraZeneca.