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Polymicrogyria Overview – RETIRED CHAPTER, FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY

Chloe A Stutterd  1 , William B Dobyns  2 , Anna Jansen  3 , Ghayda Mirzaa  4 , Richard J Leventer  5
Margaret P Adam, Jerry Feldman, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
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In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
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Polymicrogyria Overview – RETIRED CHAPTER, FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY

Chloe A Stutterd et al.
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NOTE: THIS PUBLICATION HAS BEEN RETIRED. THIS ARCHIVAL VERSION IS FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE ONLY, AND THE INFORMATION MAY BE OUT OF DATE.

The following are the goals of this overview.

Goal 1: Describe the neuroimaging characteristics of polymicrogyria (PMG).

Goal 2: Review the genetic causes of PMG.

Goal 3: Provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of PMG in a proband (when possible).

Goal 4: Inform genetic counseling of family members of a proband with PMG.

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