Project description:Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) is a major cause of drug-resistant focal epilepsy in children and the clinico-pathological classification remains a challenging issue in daily practice. With the recent progress in DNA methylation based classification of human brain tumors we examined, whether genomic DNA methylation and gene expression analysis can be used to also distinguish human FCD subtype
Project description:We generated cortical organoids from four FCD patients. To generate cortical organoids, we used induced pluriplotent stem cells (iPSCs) obtained from skin biopsy from these FCD selected patients and healthy controls. We extrated RNA samples from the cortical organoids to do customized panel of gene expression. Gene expression using NanoString Human Neuropathology Panel from four FCD patients and four controls
Project description:Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) is a major cause of drug-resistant focal epilepsy in children and the clinico-pathological classification remains a challenging issue in daily practice. With the recent progress in DNA methylation based classification of human brain tumors we examined, whether genomic DNA methylation and gene expression analysis can be used to also distinguish human FCD subtype
Project description:Sequencing of the mTOR/GATOR pathway panel to search for mosaic mutations in brain tissue removed from surgery for the treatment of epilepsy, and in peripheral blood from patients with FCD.
