About the Authors

Atsushi Ishii

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for the Molecular Pathomechanisms of Epilepsy, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yoshiaki Saito

Affiliation Department of Child Neurology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

Jun Mitsui

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Ishiura

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Yoshimura

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Hidee Arai

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Chiba Children's Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Sumimasa Yamashita

Affiliation Division of Child Neurology, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan

Sadami Kimura

Affiliation Division of Child Neurology, Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Izumi, Japan

Hirokazu Oguni

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Shinichi Morishita

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

Shoji Tsuji

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki Sasaki

Affiliation Department of Child Neurology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Japan

Shinichi Hirose

hirose@fukuoka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, Central Research Institute for the Molecular Pathomechanisms of Epilepsy, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Confirmed the diagnosis in each patients participating in this study: MS YS. Conceived and designed the experiments: AI YS SM MS ST SH. Performed the experiments: AI JM HI. Analyzed the data: AI JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS YS HA SY SK HO. Wrote the paper: AI ST SH.