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We further performed an exhaustive literature search, documenting 25 patients with epilepsy with gene defects in Xp22.31, and summarized the epilepsy heterogeneities between sexes. Males harboring the Xp22.31 deletion mainly manifested with child-onset, easily controlled focal epilepsy accompanied by X-linked ichthyosis; the deletions were mostly X-linked recessive, with copy number variants (CNVs) in the classic region of deletion (863.38\u00a0kb\u20132\u00a0Mb). In contrast, epilepsy in females tended to be earlier-onset, and relatively refractory, with pathogenic CNV sizes varying over a larger range (859\u00a0kb\u201356.36\u00a0Mb); the alterations were infrequently inherited and almost combined with additional CNVs. A candidate region encompassing <jats:italic>STS<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>HDHD1<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>MIR4767<\/jats:italic> was the likely pathogenic epilepsy-associated region. 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