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Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Disease definition
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy is the most common hereditary idiopathic generalized epilepsy syndrome and is characterized by myoclonic jerks of the upper limbs on awakening, generalized tonic-clonic seizures manifesting during adolescence and triggered by sleep deprivation, alcohol intake, and cognitive activities, and typical absence seizures (30% of cases).
ORPHA:307
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- JME
- Juvenile myoclonus epilepsy
- Prevalence: Unknown
- Inheritance: Autosomal dominant or Autosomal recessive or Multigenic/multifactorial
- Age of onset: Adolescent
- ICD-10: G40.3
- ICD-11: 8A61.30
- OMIM: 254770 604827 607628 607682 608816 611136 611364 613060 614280 617924
- UMLS: C0270853
- MeSH: D020190
- GARD: 6808
- MedDRA: 10071082
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2013) Español (2013) Français (2013) Italiano (2013) Nederlands (2013) Greek (2013, pdf) Russian (2013, pdf)
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