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A rare neurological condition with manifestation of seizures during the first year of life and choreoathetotic dyskinetic attacks during childhood or adolescence. Benign familial infantile epilepsy begins at 3 to 12 months of age with a family history of the same type of seizures. Seizures are afebrile and normally disappear after the first year of life. During childhood or adolescence, affected individuals present with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with frequent and recurrent episodic choreathetotic or dystonic movements that last less than 1 minute. Can present as sporadic or familial, in the latter case, it is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait that can be variably expressed within the same family.
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