Polymicrogyria Overview

Review

In: GeneReviews^® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.

2005 Apr 18 [updated 2018 Aug 16].

¹ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
² Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Washington, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
³ Pediatric Neurology Unit, UZ Brussel, Neurogenetics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Begium
⁴ Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
⁵ Department of Neurology, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Excerpt

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.