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Autosomal recessive lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia is associated with human RELN mutations.
Nature genetics - 1 Sept 2000
Hong S E, Shugart Y Y, Huang D T, Shahwan S A, Grant P E, Hourihane J O, Martin N D, Walsh C A
Abstract excerpt
Normal development of the cerebral cortex requires long-range migration of cortical neurons from proliferative regions deep in the brain. Lissencephaly ("smooth brain," from "lissos," meaning smooth, and "encephalos," meaning brain) is a severe developmental disorder in which neuronal migration is impaired, leading to a thickened cerebral cortex whose normally folded contour is simplified and smooth. Two...
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