Lack of Association of Childhood Partial Epilepsy with Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene

Table 1

Comparison of sex and frequency of BDNF 270T allele in study groups.

	Epilepsy group (𝑛=112)	Control group (𝑛=100)
Sex
Female	42	51
Male	70	49
BDNF-T(+)	15*	11
BDNF-T(−)	97	89

*Two of these patients carry 2 BDNF-T alleles (BDNF T/T) (𝑃=0.748, 𝜒²=0.10).