Dr. William Brian Dobyns M.D.
Neurologist | Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology
5841 S Maryland Ave Mc 0077 Chicago IL, 60637About
William B. Dobyns, MD, has made major contributions to the field of human genetics, particularly the nature and genetic causes of developmental disorders including mental retardation, autism and brain ...
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Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Microcephaly with simplified gyral pattern in six related children.
- Epilepsy and malformations of the cerebral cortex.
- Risk of abnormal pregnancy outcome in carriers of balanced reciprocal translocations involving the Miller-Dieker syndrome (MDS) critical region in chromosome 17p13.3.
- Subcortical band heterotopia in rare affected males can be caused by missense mutations in DCX (XLIS) or LIS1.
- Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism: linkage to chromosome 19q13.
- Rapid onset dystonia-parkinsonism in a 14-year-old girl.
- Cerebello-oculo-renal syndromes including Arima, Senior-Löken and COACH syndromes: more than just variants of Joubert syndrome.
- Clinical nosologic and genetic aspects of Joubert and related syndromes.
- Cortical dysplasias, genetics, and epileptogenesis.
- Homonucleotide expansion and contraction mutations of PAX2 and inclusion of Chiari 1 malformation as part of renal-coloboma syndrome.
- Familial lissencephaly with cleft palate and severe cerebellar hypoplasia.
- Genetic and neuroradiological heterogeneity of double cortex syndrome.
- Bilateral frontal polymicrogyria: a newly recognized brain malformation syndrome.
- Lissencephaly associated mutations suggest a requirement for the PAFAH1B
- Lissencephaly and subcortical band heterotopia: molecular basis and diagnosis.
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