Epilepsy genetics: current knowledge, applications, and future directions

KA Myers, DL Johnstone, DA Dyment - Clinical genetics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid pace of disease gene discovery has resulted in tremendous advances in the field
of epilepsy genetics. Clinical testing with comprehensive gene panels, exomes, and …

If not Angelman, what is it? A review of Angelman‐like syndromes

WH Tan, LM Bird, RL Thibert… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Angelman syndrome (AS) is caused by a lack of expression of the maternally inherited
UBE3A gene in the brain. However, about 10% of individuals with a clinical diagnosis of AS …

Phenotype and genotype of 87 patients with Mowat–Wilson syndrome and recommendations for care

I Ivanovski, O Djuric, SG Caraffi, D Santodirocco… - Genetics in …, 2018 - nature.com
Purpose Mowat–Wilson syndrome (MWS) is a rare intellectual disability/multiple congenital
anomalies syndrome caused by heterozygous mutation of the ZEB2 gene. It is generally …

Epilepsy and autism

AW Buckley, GL Holmes - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Epilepsy and autistic spectrum disorder frequently coexist in the same individual.
Electroencephalogram (EEG) epileptiform activity is also present at a substantially higher …

Role of Zeb2/Sip1 in neuronal development

E Epifanova, A Babaev, AG Newman, V Tarabykin - Brain Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Zeb2 (Sip1, Zfhx1b) is a transcription factor that plays essential role in neuronal
development. Sip1 mutation in humans was shown to cause Mowat-Wilson syndrome, a …

Identification of the DNA methylation signature of Mowat-Wilson syndrome

SG Caraffi, L van der Laan, K Rooney… - European Journal of …, 2024 - nature.com
Mowat-Wilson syndrome (MOWS) is a rare congenital disease caused by haploinsufficiency
of ZEB2, encoding a transcription factor required for neurodevelopment. MOWS is …

Neuroimaging findings in Mowat–Wilson syndrome: a study of 54 patients

L Garavelli, I Ivanovski, SG Caraffi… - Genetics in …, 2017 - nature.com
Purpose: Mowat–Wilson syndrome (MWS) is a genetic disease characterized by distinctive
facial features, moderate to severe intellectual disability, and congenital malformations …

Hyperactivity of Rac1-GTPase pathway impairs neuritogenesis of cortical neurons by altering actin dynamics

V Zamboni, M Armentano, G Berto, E Ciraolo… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The small-GTPase Rac1 is a key molecular regulator linking extracellular signals to
actin cytoskeleton dynamics. Loss-of-function mutations in RAC1 and other genes of the Rac …

[HTML][HTML] Mowat-wilson syndrome

MP Adam, J Conta, LJH Bean - 2019 - europepmc.org
Mowat-Wilson syndrome (MWS) is characterized by distinctive facial features (widely spaced
eyes, broad eyebrows with a medial flare, low-hanging columella, prominent or pointed chin …

A role for vasoactive intestinal peptide interneurons in neurodevelopmental disorders

KM Goff, EM Goldberg - Developmental neuroscience, 2021 - karger.com
GABAergic inhibitory interneurons of the cerebral cortex expressing vasoactive intestinal
peptide (VIP-INs) are rapidly emerging as important regulators of network dynamics and …