Molecular genetics of neuronal migration disorders

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-178

  Liu, Judy S ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ARX; Cobblestone lissencephaly; Doublecortin; FilaminA; Lissencephaly; Miller Dieker syndrome; Neuronal migration; Pachygyria; Periventricular nodular heterotopia; Polymicrogyria; Reelin; Subcortical band heterotopia

Indexed keywords

1 ALKYL 2 ACETYLGLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE ESTERASE; ALPHA TUBULIN; ALPHA TUBULIN 1A; BETA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN 3; BRAIN PROTEIN; DOUBLECORTIN; FILAMIN A; FUKUTIN RELATED PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARFGEF2; PROTEIN ARX; PROTEIN FCMD; PROTEIN LARGE; PROTEIN POMGNT1; PROTEIN POMT1; PROTEIN POMT2; REELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

AGYRIA; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DISRUPTION; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; COBBLESTONE LISSENCEPHALY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; CYTOLOGY; EPILEPSY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROGYRIA; MICROTUBULE; MILLER DIEKER SYNDROME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEURONAL MIGRATION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PACHYGYRIA; PERIVENTRICULAR HETEROTOPIA; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; QUADRIPLEGIA; REVIEW; SUBCORTICAL HETEROTOPIA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

1-ALKYL-2-ACETYLGLYCEROPHOSPHOCHOLINE ESTERASE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONAL MIGRATION DISORDERS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, LDL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUBULIN;

EID: 79955820372     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-010-0176-5     Document Type: Review

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