Clinical Trial: Microcephaly Genetic Deficiency in Neural Progenitors

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational



Official Title: Microcephaly Genetic Deficiency in Neural Progenitors: Genotyping, Phenotyping and Functional Neuro-anatomy and Neurobiology Comparative Primitive Microcephaly (MCPH) and the Fanconi Anemia (FA)

Brief Summary:

The purpose of this study is to:

I. Compare neuroradiological phenotype and cognitive functioning of MCPH patients caused by ASPM mutations already characterized and published (Passemard et al. 2009a) with other MCPH-related patients (patients with MCPH1, WDR62, CDK5RAP2, CEP 152, CENPJ, STIL, or PCNT mutations)

II. Describe the neuro-radiological and cognitive phenotype of microcephalic patients suffering from Fanconi anemia, and compared them to subjects with:

  • Fanconi anemia but normal OFC (head circumference)
  • MCPH patients
  • Healthy control subjects Our hypothesis is that mutations in genes responsible of microcephaly impact differentially cortical brain development and functioning