Untreated children often fail to attain early developmental milestones, develop microcephaly, and demonstrate progressive impairment of cerebral function.
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Some Brazilian women infected with Zika gave birth to children with microcephaly, a potentially devastating condition of brain maldevelopment.
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Merrick tries to converse with three freak show " pinheads, " or people suffering from microcephaly and mental retardation.
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In February 2016, conspiracy theories that chickenpox and rubella vaccinations or genetically modified mosquitoes were causing increases in microcephaly.
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The natural occurrence of microcephaly, and innocent local customs of manipulating infants'heads for beauty, give explanation.
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Microcephaly is determined by comparing head circumference ( often called occipitofrontal circumference, or OFC ) to appropriate OFC growth charts.
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Another relation between macrocephaly with duplications and microcephaly with deletions has been seen in research on the HYDIN Paralog or HYDIN2.
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In the past, that connection to microcephaly either didn't happen or was sufficiently rare that nobody noticed it.
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ASPM is the fifth gene to be discovered in patients with microcephaly; the others presumably cause the disease in different ways.
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The appearance can be the same as that seen with primary microcephaly : a markedly small head, but with normal proportions.
