LAMA2 and epilepsy: LAMA2 is the causative gene of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy-23 (OMIM #618138) and congenital merosin deficient or partially deficient muscular dystrophy (OMIM #607855), in which epilepsy was regarded as one of the core features (Chan et al., 2014; Xiong et al., 2015; Salvati et al., 2021).