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Microcephaly and Associated Risk Factors in Newborns: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Study
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Congenital microcephaly is caused by a multitude of drivers affecting maternal–fetal health during pregnancy. It is a rare outcome in high-income industrial countries where microcephaly rates are in the range of 0.3–0.9 per 1000 newborns.
Natália de L. Melo +2 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background: Little is known regarding the developmental consequences of congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) without microcephaly at birth. Most previously published clinical series were descriptive and they had small sample sizes. Study design: We conducted a
Tamires Barradas Cavalcante +14 more
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Autosomal Recessive Primary Microcephaly: Not Just a Small Brain
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 Microcephaly or reduced head circumference results from a multitude of abnormal developmental processes affecting brain growth and/or leading to brain atrophy.
S. Zaqout, A. Kaindl
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Cerebral organoids containing an AUTS2 missense variant model microcephaly
medRxiv, 2022 Variants in the AUTS2 gene are associated with a broad spectrum of neurological conditions characterized by intellectual disability, microcephaly, and congenital brain malformations.
Summer R. Fair +20 more
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei +4 more
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Prevalence of congenital microcephaly and its risk factors in an area at risk of Zika outbreaks
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background Prevalence of neonatal microcephaly in populations without Zika-epidemics is sparse. The study aimed to report baseline prevalence of congenital microcephaly and its relationship with prenatal factors in an area at risk of Zika outbreak ...
Songying Shen +12 more
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Jornal de Pediatria, 2021 Objective: We sought to describe the prevalence of microcephaly and to compare the different cutoff points established by the Brazilian Ministry of Health at various times during a Zika virus epidemic.
Ana Paula Antunes Pascalicchio Bertozzi +11 more
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Microcephaly measurement in adults and its association with clinical variables
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2022 OBJECTIVE To establish a microcephaly cut-off size in adults using head circumference as an indirect measure of brain size, as well as to explore factors associated with microcephaly via data mining.
Nicole Rezende da Costa +13 more
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Relationship between microcephaly and indicators of social inequality in the state of Paraíba, Brazil [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2023 Objective To analyze the relationship between microcephaly and social inequality indicators in the state of Paraíba during the biennium January 2015 and December 2016.
Anna Carolina D’ucarmo Bezerra +5 more
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