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ArticleClinical case reports2016

Infantile spasms with periventricular nodular heterotopia, unbalanced chromosomal translocation 3p26.2 -10p15.1 and 6q22.31 duplication.

Kevin Jones, Shelly K Weiss, Berge Minassian

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. West syndrome: a comprehensive review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kevin JonesComprehensive Epilepsy Program The Division of Neurology Department of Pediatrics McMaster Children's Hospital McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton ON L8S4K1 Canada.
Shelly K WeissThe Division of Neurology Department of Pediatrics The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto 555 University Ave Toronto ON M5G1X8 Canada.
Berge MinassianThe Division of Neurology Department of Pediatrics The Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto 555 University Ave Toronto ON M5G1X8 Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients presenting with infantile spasms, dysmorphic features, and periventricular nodular heterotopia may benefit from genetic copy number variation microarray, or whole-exome sequencing to identify candidate genes. This will allow personalized diagnosis and prognostication and the eventual understanding of single and combined gene functions in brain health and disease.

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Infantile spasmsperiventricular nodular heterotopiapersonalized medicine

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PMID27386127
PMCPMC4929804

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