Cerebral palsy: Causes, pathways, and the role of genetic variants

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 213, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 779-788

  MacLennan, Alastair H ^a   Thompson, Suzanna C ^a   Gecz, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

causes; cerebral palsy; DNA variants; epidemiological risk factors; genetic variants; genomics; heterogeneity; whole exome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL FETAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INBORN ERROR OF STEROID METABOLISM; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPARTUM HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LABOR; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEUROIMAGING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUCHAL CORD; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; THROMBOPHILIA; VIRUS INFECTION; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFECTION; LABOR COMPLICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY;

CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEFENSIVE MEDICINE; DYSTOCIA; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MUTATION; NUCHAL CORD; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84936107712     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.05.034     Document Type: Review

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