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Filamin A mutation associated with normal reading skills and dyslexia in a family with periventricular heterotopia.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Aug 2012
Reinstein Eyal, Chang Bernard S, Robertson Stephen P, Rimoin David L, Katzir Tami
Abstract excerpt
Periventricular heterotopia (PH) is a disorder of neuronal migration during fetal development that is characterized by morphologically normal neurons being located in an anatomically abnormal position in the mature brain. PH is usually diagnosed in patients presenting with a seizure disorder, when neuroimaging demonstrates the ectopically placed nodules of neurons. PH is a genetically and phenotypically...
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