One of several diseases associated with defects in the human gene SCN9A, one of multiple sodium channel alpha subunits in human. See human disease model report for epilepsy, SCN-alpha-related (FBhh0000289). OMIM includes this disease in the phenotypic series epilepsy, generalized, with febrile seizures plus (FBhh0000300).
[updated June 2016 by FlyBase; FBrf0222196]
[GENERALIZED EPILEPSY WITH FEBRILE SEIZURES PLUS, TYPE 7; GEFSP7](https://omim.org/entry/613863)
[GENERALIZED EPILEPSY WITH FEBRILE SEIZURES PLUS, TYPE 7; GEFSP7](https://omim.org/entry/613863)