De novo point mutations in patients diagnosed with ataxic cerebral palsy
Parolin Schnekenberg, Ricardo ; Perkins, Emma M. ; Miller, Jack W. ; Davies, Wayne I. L. ; D'Adamo, Maria Cristina ; Pessia, Mauro ; Fawcett, Katherine A. ; Sims, David ; Gillard, Elodie ; Hudspith, Karl ; Skehel, Paul ; Williams, Jonathan ; O'Regan, Mary ; Jayawant, Sandeep ; Jefferson, Rosalind ; Hughes, Sarah ; Lustenberger, Andrea ; Ragoussis, Jiannis ; Jackson, Mandy ; Tucker, Stephen J. ; Németh, Andrea H.
In: Brain, 2015, vol. 138, no. 7, p. 1817-1832
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- Cerebral palsy is commonly attributed to perinatal asphyxia. However, Schnekenberg et al. describe here four individuals with ataxic cerebral palsy likely due to de novo dominant mutations associated with increased paternal age. Therefore, patients with cerebral palsy should be investigated for genetic causes before the disorder is ascribed to asphyxia