Zaid Afawi
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Recent Articles
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Abu-Freha N, Alamour O, Weissmann S, Esbit S, Cohen B, Gordon M, et al.
Isr Med Assoc J
. 2024 Dec;
26(11):694-700.
PMID: 39692388
Background: The lifestyle of the Arab population in Israel has changed in the last few decades, and modernization and urbanization have impacted the prevalence of chronic diseases. Objectives: To investigate...
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Guy A, Azab A, Liberty I, Afawi Z, Alhoashla A, Tailakh M
Diabetes Obes Metab
. 2024 Jan;
26(4):1346-1354.
PMID: 38240127
Aim: To identify the sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory determinants relating to patient adherence to liraglutide treatment among individuals with overweight or obesity. Methods: We retrospectively analysed patients with overweight or...
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Chen S, Abou-Khalil B, Afawi Z, Ali Q, Amadori E, Anderson A, et al.
medRxiv
. 2023 Mar;
PMID: 36865150
Identifying genetic risk factors for highly heterogeneous disorders like epilepsy remains challenging. Here, we present the largest whole-exome sequencing study of epilepsy to date, with >54,000 human exomes, comprising 20,979...
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Shaimardanova A, Chulpanova D, Mullagulova A, Afawi Z, Gamirova R, Solovyeva V, et al.
Front Mol Neurosci
. 2022 Jun;
15:868531.
PMID: 35645733
Epilepsy is a chronic non-infectious disease of the brain, characterized primarily by recurrent unprovoked seizures, defined as an episode of disturbance of motor, sensory, autonomic, or mental functions resulting from...
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Hammer M, Pan Y, Cumbay M, Pendziwiat M, Afawi Z, Goldberg-Stern H, et al.
Epilepsia
. 2022 May;
63(8):1970-1980.
PMID: 35592948
Objective: Family members carrying the same SCN1A variant often exhibit differences in the clinical severity of epilepsy. This variable expressivity suggests that other factors aside from the primary sodium channel...
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Abu-Freha N, Jacob B, Elhoashla A, Afawi Z, Abu-Hammad T, Elsana F, et al.
Eur J Gen Pract
. 2022 May;
28(1):102-108.
PMID: 35579223
Background: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a common cause of chronic liver disease and its ensuing complications. In the last years, there has been a revolution of the treatment for...
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Courage C, Oliver K, Park E, Cameron J, Grabinska K, Muona M, et al.
Am J Hum Genet
. 2021 Apr;
108(4):722-738.
PMID: 33798445
Progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PMEs) comprise a group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous rare diseases. Over 70% of PME cases can now be molecularly solved. Known PME genes encode a variety...
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Stamberger H, Hammer T, Gardella E, Vlaskamp D, Bertelsen B, Mandelstam S, et al.
Genet Med
. 2020 Nov;
23(2):363-373.
PMID: 33144681
Purpose: Pathogenic variants in the X-linked gene NEXMIF (previously KIAA2022) are associated with intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder, and epilepsy. We aimed to delineate the female and male phenotypic...
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Helbig I, Barcia G, Pendziwiat M, Ganesan S, Mueller S, Helbig K, et al.
Ann Clin Transl Neurol
. 2020 Jul;
7(8):1429-1435.
PMID: 32666661
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a devastating epilepsy characterized by new-onset refractory status epilepticus with a prior febrile infection. We performed exome sequencing in 50 individuals with FIRES, including...
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Gentry M, Afawi Z, Armstrong D, Delgado-Escueta A, Goldberg Y, Grossman T, et al.
Epilepsy Behav
. 2020 Jan;
103(Pt A):106839.
PMID: 31932179
Lafora disease (LD) is both a fatal childhood epilepsy and a glycogen storage disease caused by recessive mutations in either the Epilepsy progressive myoclonus 2A (EPM2A) or EPM2B genes. Hallmarks...