Feb 11, 2015
An international research collaboration that included the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center has demonstrated a larger than expected role of genes in the development of cerebral palsy.
It has long been believed that cerebral palsy is the result of a lack of oxygen for a child during birth; however, the team at the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor, in collaboration with clinicians based at the University of Adelaide, Australia, have found at least 14 percent of patients in a group of cerebral palsy cases, are likely caused by a genetic mutation.
› Read full announcement in BCM news
› Read article in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry