Utcharee IntusomaFadell HayeeduerehOradawan Plong-OnThanya SripoPunnee VasiknanonteSupachai JanjindamaiApasri LusawatSasipa ThammongkolAnannit VisudtibhanPornprot LimprasertPrince of Songkla UniversityPrasat Neurological InstituteMahidol University2018-05-032018-05-032011-09-01European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. Vol.15, No.5 (2011), 432-43815322130109037982-s2.0-80052960630https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/12356Purposes: To perform CDKL5 mutation screening in Thai children with cryptogenic infantile intractable epilepsy and to determine the clinical sensitivity of CDKL5 screening when different inclusion criteria were applied. Methods: Children with cryptogenic infantile intractable epilepsy were screened for CDKL5 mutation using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification and DNA sequencing. The clinical sensitivity was reviewed by combining the results of studies using similar inclusion screening criteria. Results: Thirty children (19 girls and 11 boys) with a median seizure onset of 7 months were screened. Almost a half had infantile spasms and one fifth had stereotypic hand movements. A novel c.2854C > T (p.R952X) was identified in an ambulatory girl who had severe mental retardation, multiple types of seizures without Rett-like features. Her mother had a mild intellectual disability, yet her grandmother and half sister were normal despite having the same genetic alteration (random X-inactivation patterns). The pathogenicity of p.R952X identified here was uncertain since healthy relatives and 6 female controls also harbor this alteration. The clinical sensitivity of CDKL5 mutation screening among females with Rett-like features and negative MECP2 screening was 7.8% while the clinical sensitivity among females having cryptogenic intractable seizures with an onset before the ages of 12, 6 and 3 months were 4.7, 11.6 and 14.3%, respectively. © 2011 European Paediatric Neurology Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1016/j.ejpn.2011.01.005