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There are no studies on the focused synthesis of epilepsy phenotypes in WABS.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A clinical review is conducted for a patient diagnosed with WABS. And a comprehensive search is performed using PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. We select only papers that report patients with WABS and epilepsy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present a boy exhibiting the core manifestations of this syndrome. In addition to growth restriction, microcephaly, and sensorineural hearing loss, he has experienced recurrent epileptic seizures since 7\u202fmonths of age. The child showed resistance to multiple antiepileptic drugs, with seizure types progressing from focal to epileptic spasms. Whole-exome sequencing identified two variants in the patient\u2019s DDX11 gene: c.2120delT (p.F707Sfs*60) and c.1949-3C&amp;gt;T (splicing). A literature review identified a total of 7 previously reported children with WABS complicated by epilepsy, and we collected and summarized their clinical and genetic information.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We report a child with WABS whose main symptom was epilepsy. This case expands the known mutation spectrum of WABS and provides a comprehensive summary of clinical and genetic data for WABS patients presenting with epilepsy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2026.1751535","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,3]],"date-time":"2026-03-03T06:48:40Z","timestamp":1772520520000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["A pediatric patient with Warsaw breakage syndrome presenting with epilepsy: a case report and literature review"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Yixuan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Yi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenfeng","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chengqing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kaixuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiashuo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiao","family":"Xue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University","place":["Qingdao, Shandong, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2404","DOI":"10.1002\/ajmg.a.40482","article-title":"Warsaw breakage syndrome: further clinical and genetic delineation","volume":"176","author":"Alkhunaizi","year":"2018","journal-title":"Am. 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