Genetic insights into the causes and classification of the cerebral palsies

A Moreno-De-Luca, DH Ledbetter, CL Martin - The lancet neurology, 2012 - thelancet.com
Cerebral palsy—the most common physical disability of childhood—is a clinical diagnosis
encompassing a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders that cause …

Genetic or other causation should not change the clinical diagnosis of cerebral palsy

AH MacLennan, S Lewis… - Journal of child …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
High throughput sequencing is discovering many likely causative genetic variants in
individuals with cerebral palsy. Some investigators have suggested that this changes the …

Towards functional improvement of motor disorders associated with cerebral palsy

S Bekteshi, E Monbaliu, S McIntyre, G Saloojee… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Cerebral palsy is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition arising from non-progressive
disorders occurring in the fetal or infant brain. Cerebral palsy has long been categorised into …

Redefining cerebral palsies as a diverse group of neurodevelopmental disorders with genetic aetiology

CL van Eyk, MC Fahey, J Gecz - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
Cerebral palsy is a clinical descriptor covering a diverse group of permanent, non-
degenerative disorders of motor function. Around one-third of cases have now been shown …

Insights from genetic studies of cerebral palsy

SA Lewis, S Shetty, BA Wilson, AJ Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cohort-based whole exome and whole genome sequencing and copy number variant
(CNV) studies have identified genetic etiologies for a sizable proportion of patients with …

Exome sequencing reveals genetic heterogeneity and clinically actionable findings in children with cerebral palsy

Y Wang, Y Xu, C Zhou, Y Cheng, N Qiao, Q Shang… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability in children. To ascertain the role of
major genetic variants in the etiology of CP, we conducted exome sequencing on a large …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral palsy: causes, pathways, and the role of genetic variants

AH MacLennan, SC Thompson, J Gecz - American journal of obstetrics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cerebral palsy (CP) is heterogeneous with different clinical types, comorbidities, brain
imaging patterns, causes, and now also heterogeneous underlying genetic variants. Few …

The genomic basis of cerebral palsy: a HuGE systematic literature review

ME O'Callaghan, AH MacLennan, EA Haan, G Dekker… - Human genetics, 2009 - Springer
Cerebral palsy has been associated with a number of candidate genes. To date, no
systematic review has been conducted to synthesise genetic polymorphism associations …

The genetic basis of cerebral palsy

MC Fahey, AH Maclennan… - … Medicine & Child …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although prematurity and hypoxic–ischaemic injury are well‐recognized contributors to the
pathogenesis of cerebral palsy (CP), as many as one‐third of children with CP may lack …

Developmental brain dysfunction: revival and expansion of old concepts based on new genetic evidence

A Moreno-De-Luca, SM Myers, TD Challman… - The Lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Neurodevelopmental disorders can be caused by many different genetic abnormalities that
are individually rare but collectively common. Specific genetic causes, including certain copy …