For Families

Northwestern University is committed to excellence in pediatric and adult epilepsy clinical care.

If you and/or your family member have had a genetic test, called whole exome sequencing, but have yet to identify a genetic cause, the CURE Foundation’s Epilepsy Genetics Initiative – EGI may be of interest to you. EGI has created a centralized database to hold the genetic data of people with epilepsy. The data will be analyzed and reanalyzed until the cause of the person’s epilepsy is found. Findings will be reported back to the person’s doctor.