Genetics and the investigation of developmental delay/intellectual disability

M Srour, M Shevell - Archives of disease in childhood, 2014 - adc.bmj.com
Global developmental delay and intellectual disabilities are common reasons for diagnostic
assessment by paediatricians. There are a multiplicity of possible causes many of which …

[PDF][PDF] High rate of recurrent de novo mutations in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies

FF Hamdan, CT Myers, P Cossette, P Lemay… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) is a group of conditions characterized
by the co-occurrence of epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID), typically with developmental …

[HTML][HTML] De Novo Mutations in Moderate or Severe Intellectual Disability

FF Hamdan, M Srour, JM Capo-Chichi, H Daoud… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Genetics is believed to have an important role in intellectual disability (ID). Recent studies
have emphasized the involvement of de novo mutations (DNMs) in ID but the extent to which …

[PDF][PDF] Excess of de novo deleterious mutations in genes associated with glutamatergic systems in nonsyndromic intellectual disability

FF Hamdan, J Gauthier, Y Araki, DT Lin… - The American Journal of …, 2011 - cell.com
Little is known about the genetics of nonsyndromic intellectual disability (NSID). We
hypothesized that de novo mutations (DNMs) in synaptic genes explain an important fraction …

Screening for developmental delay in the setting of a community pediatric clinic: a prospective assessment of parent-report questionnaires

D Rydz, M Srour, M Oskoui, N Marget, M Shiller… - …, 2006 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES. Our goal for this study was to prospectively test whether parent-completed
questionnaires can be effectively used in the setting of a busy ambulatory pediatric clinic to …

Mutations in genes encoding the cadherin receptor-ligand pair DCHS1 and FAT4 disrupt cerebral cortical development

S Cappello, MJ Gray, C Badouel, S Lange… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The regulated proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells before the generation and
migration of neurons in the cerebral cortex are central aspects of mammalian development …

Mutations in DCC Cause Congenital Mirror Movements

M Srour, JB Rivière, JMT Pham, MP Dubé, S Girard… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Mirror movements are involuntary contralateral movements that mirror voluntary ones and
are often associated with defects in midline crossing of the developing central nervous …

[PDF][PDF] KIF1A, an axonal transporter of synaptic vesicles, is mutated in hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 2

JB Rivière, S Ramalingam, V Lavastre… - The American Journal of …, 2011 - cell.com
Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type II (HSANII) is a rare autosomal-
recessive disorder characterized by peripheral nerve degeneration resulting in a severe …

Clinical and radiologic spectrum of septo-optic dysplasia: review of 17 cases

C Alt, MI Shevell, C Poulin… - Journal of Child …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We retrospectively reviewed the clinical and radiologic characteristics of 17 individuals with
septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) and attempted to identify correlations between imaging …

[PDF][PDF] Recurrent de novo and biallelic variation of ATAD3A, encoding a mitochondrial membrane protein, results in distinct neurological syndromes

T Harel, WH Yoon, C Garone, S Gu… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
ATPase family AAA-domain containing protein 3A (ATAD3A) is a nuclear-encoded
mitochondrial membrane protein implicated in mitochondrial dynamics, nucleoid …