Another male child developed generalized epilepsy and mild intellectual impairment in late infancy, and his mother and his maternal uncle were identified as carriers of a known CACNA1A pathogenic variant [c.2602delG heterozygous, p. (Ala868Profs*24)] with a diagnosis of episodic ataxia type 2. The gene discussed is CACNA1A; the disease is idiopathic generalized epilepsy.