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| A L GropmanSummaryAffiliation: Children's National Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Epigenetics, copy number variation, and other molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disabilities: new insights and diagnostic approachesAndrea L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Dev Behav Pediatr 31:582-91. 2010..This review will describe a number of the molecular genetic mechanisms that play a role in disorders leading to ID/NDD and will discuss the categories and technologies for diagnostic testing of these conditions...
"Giant" arachnoid granulations just like CSF?: NOT!!C R Trimble
Department of Radiological Sciences, Irvine Medical Center, University of California Irvine, 101 The City Drive, Orange, CA 92868, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 31:1724-8. 2010..Nonfluid signal intensity was present in 18/19 AGs and varied from absent/hypointense (intra-AG flow voids) to gray matter isointense (stromal tissue)...
Clinical variability and novel neurodevelopmental findings in 49, XXXXY syndromeAndrea L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia 20010, USA
Am J Med Genet A 152:1523-30. 2010..Variability in clinical and cognitive functioning may reflect skewed X inactivation, mosaicism, or other factors that warrant further investigation...
Diffusion tensor imaging detects areas of abnormal white matter microstructure in patients with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiencyA L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 31:1719-23. 2010..The extent to which the deficits involve specific pathways in the brain is unknown. We hypothesized that DTI would disclose white matter microstructure in OTCD correlating with cognitive deficits...
Brain imaging in urea cycle disordersAndrea Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Mol Genet Metab 100:S20-30. 2010..An understanding of the pathogenesis of brain injury in UCD is likely to advance our knowledge of more common disorders of liver dysfunction...
1H MRS identifies symptomatic and asymptomatic subjects with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiencyA L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Mol Genet Metab 95:21-30. 2008..To evaluate brain metabolism in subjects with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) utilizing (1)H MRS...
1H MRS allows brain phenotype differentiation in sisters with late onset ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) and discordant clinical presentationsAndrea L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Mol Genet Metab 94:52-60. 2008..The concentration of mI seen on (1)H MRS in PWM and FWM in this family could be used to deduce clinical symptomatology and may serve as a non-invasive marker of brain liability in OTCD...
Neurological implications of urea cycle disordersA L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center and the George Washington University of the Health Sciences, 111 Michigan Avenue, N W, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Inherit Metab Dis 30:865-79. 2007..Thus, both strategies are intriguing areas for potential investigation in human urea cycle disorders...
New developments in Smith-Magenis syndrome (del 17p11.2)Andrea L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Children s National Medical Center, George Washington University of the Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Curr Opin Neurol 20:125-34. 2007..Recent clinical, neuroimaging, sleep, and molecular cytogenetic studies have provided new insights into the mechanisms leading to the Smith-Magenis phenotype and are summarized in this review...
Atypical patterns of inheritanceAndrea L Gropman
Department of Neurology, Center for Neuroscience and Behavioral Medicine, Children s National Medical Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Semin Pediatr Neurol 14:34-45. 2007..This review is meant to extend and complement the other topics in this issue as the concept of atypical inheritance is explored in more detail...
Expanding the diagnostic and research toolbox for inborn errors of metabolism: the role of magnetic resonance spectroscopyAndrea L Gropman
Department of Pediatrics (Genetics and Metabolism, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
Mol Genet Metab 86:2-9. 2005
Cognitive outcome in urea cycle disordersAndrea L Gropman
Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20010-2916, USA
Mol Genet Metab 81:S58-62. 2004..Such methods of investigation may serve as a model for studying the relationship between genes, biochemical markers, brain function, and behavior in other metabolic diseases...
Neurologic and developmental features of the Smith-Magenis syndrome (del 17p11.2)Andrea L Gropman
Department of Pediatrics Genetics and Metabolism, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Pediatr Neurol 34:337-50. 2006..Suggestions for management of the behavioral and sleep difficulties are discussed in the context of the authors' personal experience in the setting of an ongoing Smith-Magenis syndrome natural history study...
Hypercholesterolemia in children with Smith-Magenis syndrome: del (17) (p11.2p11.2)Ann C M Smith
Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bldg. 10, Room 10C103, 10 Center Drive, MSC 1875, Bethesda, MD 20892-1875, USA
Genet Med 4:118-25. 2002..CONCLUSION: Hypercholesterolemia is common in SMS and may serve as a useful early clinical biochemical marker of the syndrome...
