Polymicrogyria with dysmorphic basal ganglia? Think tubulin!

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 178-183

  Amrom, D ^a,b   Tanyalcin I ^c   Verhelst, H ^d   Deconinck, N ^e   Brouhard, G J ^f   Decarie J C ^a   Vanderhasselt, T ^c   Das, S ^g   Hamdan, F F ^a   Lissens, W ^c,h   Michaud, J L ^a   Jansen, A C ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e HOP UNIV DES ENFANTS REINE FABIOLA   (Belgium)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Corpus callosum; Malformations of cortical development; Polymicrogyria; TUBB2B

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TUBULIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TUBB2B PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DYSMORPHIC BASAL GANGLIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MICROGYRIA; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTIC CHIASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; PUTAMEN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; TUBB2B GENE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DOMINANT GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

BASAL GANGLIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DYNEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMICROGYRIA; TUBULIN;

EID: 84892450208     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cge.12141     Document Type: Article

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