Human Gene Set: HP_SUDDEN_UNEXPECTED_DEATH_IN_EPILEPSY
Standard name
HP_SUDDEN_UNEXPECTED_DEATH_IN_EPILEPSY
Systematic name
M46337
Brief description
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Full description or abstract
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is a sudden, unexpected, witnessed or unwitnessed, non-traumatic and non-drowning death, occurring in benign circumstances, in an individual with epilepsy, with or without evidence for a seizure and excluding documented status epilepticus, in which postmortem examination has not revealed a cause of death. [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-8178, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9588-2944, PMID:22191982]