Seizures are an intermittent abnormality of the central nervous system due to a sudden, excessive, disorderly discharge of cerebral neurons and characterized clinically by some combination of disturbance of sensation, loss of consciousness, impairment of psychic function, or convulsive movements. The term epilepsy is used to describe chronic, recurrent seizures. (Human Phenotype Ontology, HP_0001250)
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5 genes associated with the disease seizures in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the GAD Gene-Disease Associations dataset.