| Term Name: | benign neonatal seizures |
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| Synonyms: | benign familial neonatal seizures, benign neonatal convulsions |
| Definition: | A neonatal period electroclinical syndrome that is characterized by tonic-clonic seizures in newborns occurring within the first seven days of life and ceasing within the first 15 weeks of life and has_material_basis_in autosomal dominant inheritance of voltage-gated potassium channels or a chromosomal inversion. |
| Ontology: | Human Disease [DOID:14264] ( DOID:14264 ) |