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Scottish Parliament

SNP MSP Kenneth Gibson is leading a debate on the Glasgow Epilepsy Genetics Service.

In his motion Mr Gibson highlights the work undertaken by the Glasgow Epilepsy Genetics Service, which was established in the Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics at RHSC Yorkhill in 2005 with support from the Muir Maxwell Trust.

Mr Gibson said Yorkhill was the principal testing centre for the UK and several other countries and understood that 2,500 individuals had already benefited from a growing number of investigations, currently across six genes, leading to a genetic diagnosis of epilepsy.

He also welcomed further plans to offer a comprehensive genetic panel of epilepsy genes from mid 2012, earlier testing for children and adults, and a Scottish Paediatric Epilepsy Origins and Outcome Study.

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