Previous studies have suggested an association of SYN2 rs3773364 A>G polymorphism with febrile seizures in the UK, Irish, and Finnish cohorts (EPIGEN Epilepsy Genetic Consortium; Cavalleri et al., 2007) and in Indian patients with idiopathic epilepsy (Lakhan et al., 2010), but not in the Australian cohort (Cavalleri et al., 2007) or in Malaysian epileptic patients (Haerian et al., 2011). The gene discussed is SYN2; the disease is epilepsy.