Evidence of recombination, depicted by white regions on the LD plot, was observed in the region containing a coding variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) within exon 4 of the NRSF gene that is tagged by the rs2227902 SNP [25] (Fig. 3B), shown from our genetic association to be significantly correlated with memory performance in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy (Table 4, Table 5). Here, REST is linked to epilepsy.