Our findings align with this literature, as the hippocampus was the brain region with the highest number of DAPs, and disease association analysis pointed to epilepsy, reinforcing Ndel1's crucial role in this condition, as suggested by others (Choi et al. 2016; Zhu et al. 2020; Gavrilovici et al. 2021; Tsai et al. 2024). Here, NDEL1 is linked to epilepsy.