GG19CH08_Walsh ARI 26 July 2018 9:23 Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics The Genetics of Primary Microcephaly Divya Jayaraman,1,2,3 Byoung-Il Bae,4 and Christopher A. Walsh1,5,6 1Division of Genetics and Genomics, Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA 2Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA 3Current affiliation: Boston Combined Residency Program (Child Neurology), Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; email:
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[email protected] Annu. Rev. Genom. Hum. Genet. 2018. Keywords 19:177–200 microcephaly, centrosome, DNA repair, radial glial cells First published as a Review in Advance on May 23, 2018 Abstract The Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics is online at genom.annualreviews.org Primary microcephaly (MCPH, for “microcephaly primary hereditary”) is a disorder of brain development that results in a head circumference more than https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genom-083117- 021441 3 standard deviations below the mean for age and gender. It has a wide va- riety of causes, including toxic exposures, in utero infections, and metabolic Copyright c 2018 by Annual Reviews. Access provided by University of Connecticut on 05/21/19. For personal use only. All rights reserved conditions.