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Essential genetic findings in neurodevelopmental disorders

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Summary:Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) represent a growing medical challenge in modern societies. Ever-increasing sophisticated diagnostic tools have been continuously revealing a remarkably complex architecture that embraces genetic mutations of distinct types (chromosomal rearrangements, copy number variants, small indels, and nucleotide substitutions) with distinct frequencies in the population (common, rare, de novo). Such a network of interacting players creates difficulties in establishing rigorous genotype-phenotype correlations. Furthermore, individual lifestyles may also contribute to the severity of the symptoms fueling a large spectrum of gene-environment interactions that have a key role on the relationships between genotypes and phenotypes.Herein, a review of the genetic discoveries related to NDDs is presented with the aim to provide useful general information for the medical community.
Main Authors:Cardoso, Ana R.
Other Authors:Lopes-Marques, Mónica; Silva, Raquel M.; Serrano, Catarina; Amorim, António; Prata, Maria J.; Azevedo, Luísa
Subject:Brain-related genes De novo mutations Deleterious mutations Gene interaction Neurodevelopmental disorders Polymorphisms Risk alleles
Year:2019
Country:Portugal
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Language:English
Origin:Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

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