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disorder characterized bysmoothness (lack offolds andgrooves ) of thebrain .
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A: It sounds like you are referring to lissencephaly, from the Greek words lissos for smooth and cephale for head (in this case actually referring to the brain), and that is what I will discuss in today's column.
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A: It sounds like you are referring to lissencephaly, from the Greek words lissos for smooth and cephale for head (in this case actually referring to the brain), and that is what I will discuss in today's column.
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The work is the culmination of 15 years of collaborative research in the Wynshaw-Boris and Hirotsune labs into the cause and mechanisms of lissencephaly, which is caused by a deletion or loss of one copy of the LIS1 gene and affects an estimated one in 50,000-100,000 infants.
innovations-report 2009
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The work is the culmination of 15 years of collaborative research in the Wynshaw-Boris and Hirotsune labs into the cause and mechanisms of lissencephaly, which is caused by a deletion or loss of one copy of the LIS1 gene and affects an estimated one in 50,000-100,000 infants.
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In general, '' 'lissencephaly' '' describes the shape of a brain as being smooth, as opposed to [[gyrification | gyrified]].
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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In general, '' 'lissencephaly' '' describes the shape of a brain as being smooth, as opposed to [[gyrification | gyrified]].
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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I am the aunt of a special needs child with lissencephaly (smooth-brain syndrome) who lived for 12 years (and died Christmas season 2005).
Sunday Sweets: James' Sweet Safari Jen 2009
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Or maybe I cell disease ... or lissencephaly ... or ... what?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Mutant LIS1 has been linked previously to the classic form of lissencephaly, a devastating brain malformation due to defective migration of nerve cells within the developing brain.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Newborns with lissencephaly generally live only months.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Children born with lissencephaly, a rare brain malformation, often have trouble swallowing and frequent seizures, in addition to other intellectual and physical challenges.
How Colorado Became a Global Safe Haven for Later Abortion Madeleine Schmidt 2020
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“Smooth brain” — as slang, rather than lissencephaly, the medical disorder — was used to describe Trumpian delusion but gradually came to mean an ideal state of empty-mindedness, presented as a point of pride.
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Lissencephaly, which literally means "smooth brain", is a rare brain formation disorder caused by defective neuronal migration during the 12th to 24th weeks of gestation resulting in a lack of development of brain folds gyri and grooves sulci.
July 12, 2015