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Mild phenotype in a patient with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy carrying a novel de novo KCNB1 variant

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We thank the family who helped us in completing the clinical report.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0907700) and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ20H090018).

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    Jin-Mei Lu, Jian-Fang Zhang, Cai-Hong Ji, Jing Hu & Kang Wang

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Wang Kang has contributed to searching the literature and revising the manuscript. Lu Jinmei and Zhang Jianfang are responsible for the follow-up of the patient, drafting the manuscript, and clinical evaluation. Ji Caihong has analyzed the data and searched the literature. Hu Jing is in charge of following up with the patient.

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Correspondence to Kang Wang.

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This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University. All the followed procedures were conformed to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.

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Lu, JM., Zhang, JF., Ji, CH. et al. Mild phenotype in a patient with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy carrying a novel de novo KCNB1 variant. Neurol Sci 42, 4325–4327 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05388-8

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