Genetic Causes of Epilepsy (GATE)

Led by Principal Investigator Professor Rikke Steensbjerre Møller

The purpose of the research is to provide genetic counseling and develop personalised treatment approaches for epilepsy, ultimately aiming to tailor patients' epilepsy medication to their genetic profile.

The researchers achieve this by examining the genetic material in patients with presumed genetically based epilepsy and their families using the computational capacity of the Danish National Genome Center's supercomputer to perform advanced statistical analyses on sequence data collected through whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing, and nanopore sequencing.