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. 2015 Jul 10;2(9):1063–1070. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.07.005

Table 2.

Genome-wide burden analysis results based on 89,512 quality-control filtered, protein-changing, and rare variants.

SUDEP patients
Epilepsy controls
Disease controls
Wilcoxon rank-sum test P-valuesa
(n = 18)
(n = 87)
(n = 1479)
M Mdn IQR (Q1–Q3) M Mdn IQR (Q1–Q3) M Mdn IQR (Q1–Q3) SUDEP vs. epilepsy controls
SUDEP vs. disease controls
Epilepsy controls vs. disease controls
Test groups 18 vs. 87 18 vs. 1479 87 vs. 1479
Per-individual burden scores 309.2 313.3 54.3
(284–338)
282.7 276.3 47.2
(257–304)
270.3 268.4 73.5
(233–306)
5.7 × 10− 3 1.2 × 10− 3 0.023
N. of variants per individual 110.2 108.5 18
(102–120)
104.1 101 18
(96–114)
99.29 98 24
(86–110)
0.022 4.1 × 10− 3 6.1 × 10− 3



Post hoc analysis excluding SCN1A variantsb
Per-individual burden scores 308.2 312.6 54.3
(284–338)
282.2 276.3 46.5
(256–303)
270.3 268.4 73.5
(233–306)
6.3 × 10− 3 1.4 × 10− 3 0.028

Threshold for statistical significance after Bonferroni correction was set to α = 8.3 × 10− 3. Abbreviations: SUDEP, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; M, mean; Mdn, median; IQR, interquartile range; Q1, lower (first) quartile; Q3, upper (third) quartile; N., number.

a

All P-values are two-tailed.

b

Post hoc analysis excluding 31 SCN1A variants present in any of the testing groups.