from my personal experience epilepsy is not not a genetic illness but if new evidence shows otherwise then i cant argue.10% or less of epileptic parents have children with the same but if you look at it that 1/9 people will have a fit sometimes in their life the chances are remote.

I has tested for the JME gene witch you get from your parents my dad had it. I do have the gene, they did blood tests. JME is Juvnile Myoclonic Epilepsy but you don't have to be juvnile to have it. I also have refactory primary gen. Epilepsy but they didn' test genes for that I don't it there is one. What kind of epilepsy do you have?

my oldest son and i were diagnosed with a genetic syndrome that causes malformed blood vessels. They have just recently developed genetics testing for it. My oldest son was the only one tested so far. We have no gotten the results yet. It takes 6 to 10 wks. They took 4 viles of blood to do the test. They said it has to sit for a while and then they do a geneolgy on him looking for the certain genes that cause this syndrome. If he tests positive then we all get tested because it is very hereditary. i know it comes from me because i have had 2 strokes and they have seen the spots on my brain. he is a little different in that they can't see his spots until he has a bleed. he's had 3 strokes and brain surgery to have a large cavernous malformation removed when he was 6.