Unjustified allegation on cancer risks in children of mothers with epilepsy taking high-dose folic acid during pregnancy-No proof of a causal relationship

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Bonn, Germany.
• ² Department of Pediatric Neurology, AP-HP, Robert-Debré University Hospital, CRMR Épilepsies Rares, EpiCARE Member, Paris, France.
• ³ Université Paris Cité, INSERM NeuroDiderot, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France.
• ⁵ Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁶ Translational and Clinical Research Institute Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁷ Department Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁸ Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁹ The Walton Centre, NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• ¹¹ The Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹² UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital/UH Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Neurology, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁴ Christian Doppler Medical Centre, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁵ Neuroscience Institute, Christian Doppler Medical Centre, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Salzburg, Austria.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, UMIT, Hall in Tyrol, Austria.
• ¹⁷ Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.