New subtype of familial intracranial calcification in a mother and two children

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 943-946

  Elsaid, Mahmoud F ^a   Crow, Yanick J ^b   Livingston, John H ^c   Ben Omran, Tawfeg ^a  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arab; Corpus callosum; Internal capsule; Intracranial calcification; Qatar

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL;

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION; QATAR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950443767     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33360     Document Type: Article

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