Lissencephaly

Lissencephaly Network, Inc.

716 Autumn Ridge

Fort Wayne, IN 46804-6402

Phone: (219) 432-4310 Contact: Dianna Fitzgerald

Fax: (219) 749-6337

Web site:  http://www.lissencephaly.org

E-mail: lissnet@lissencephaly.org or   pjoliver@ghg.net

see  Genetics Page (recurrence rates for different types) and Lissencephaly Types and Genetics

Lissencephaly Network

c/o Debbie Bloor
1549 Regent Street
Regina, Saskatchewan S4N 1S1 CANADA
Phone:  306-569-0146

 

Lissencephaly Launch Pad, United Kingdom (parents web site)

39 Barlows Road
Edgbaston, Birmingham  B15 2PN  England
Phone: +44 (0)121 455 0981

Web Page: homepage.ntlworld.com/foliot/liss/

Lissencephaly Contact Group,  UK,  http://www.lissencephaly.org.uk/  

Also See:

• National organizations information on genetic conditions or birth defects
• Information for Siblings and Family Members
• Lissencephaly, Mini Information Sheet, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1997
• Classical Lissencephaly Syndromes, from GeneClinics (formerly Genline), WBDobyns
• Lissencephaly and Subcortical Band Heterotopia (Agyria-Pachygyria-Band Spectrum) Overview, GeneClinics
• Cephalic Disorders
• Walker Warburg Syndrome (Muscle-Eye-Brain disease)
• Brain disorder lists, ONELIST (Search by subject - Anencephaly, Colpocephaly, Holoprosencephaly, Hydranencephaly, Iniencephaly, Lissencephaly, Megalencephaly (or Macrocephaly or Hemimegalencephaly), Microcephaly, Porencephaly, SchizKidzBuddies (Schizencephaly), Polymicrogyria (Often Related to Schizencephaly, form of Lissencephaly), Walker Warburg (Walker Warburg Syndrome or Muscle-Eye-Brain Disease, form of Lissencephaly), Dandy Walker)
• Lissencephaly pages, George Law
• Lissencephaly mailing list
• Polymicrogyria mailing list
• UK Lissencephaly Contact Group
• Congenital Disorders of the Brain
• Development of the Cerebral Cortex, neuronal migration in Lissencephaly
• Lissencephaly Overview, NINDS
• Lissencephaly, NORD
• Testing for hereditary variants of Lissencephaly,  American Neurological Association
• Miller-Dieker Syndrome, OMIM
• LIS1 gene
• Platelet Activating Factor, PAF
• PAFAH1B1 Mutations that cause ILS/MDS (from Chromosome 17)
• LIS1 gene information
• Abnormalities, when the end of the short arm ('p' arm) of chromosome 17 is deleted
• DCX gene,  X-chromosome gene that can cause Lissencephaly, OMIM
• DCX Gene Mutations that cause ILS (from X Chromosome)
• X-Linked Lissencephaly, OMIM
• Walker-Warburg Syndrome, NORD
• Walker-Warburg Syndrome, OMIM
• Muscle-Eye-Brain Disease (MEB), OMIM
• Biparietal Polymicrogyria
• Type III Lissencephaly, brief overview
• Norman-Roberts Syndrome (Microlissencephaly with thick cortex)

• brain images , Virtual Hospital

Malformed Brains

• Lissencephaly MRI (type unknown)
• Band Heterotopia MRI
• Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum (ACC)
• Schizencephaly
• Microcephaly Support Group
• Hydrocephalus Association and Shunts
• The Micro & Anophthalmic Children's Society, eye disorders seen in WWS/MEB
• Exceptional Parent Magazine for parents with children and young adults with a disability or special needs
• Special Child Magazine for parents and care givers dealing with a special child
• Life after Grief, written by a mother of child who died of Lissencephaly
• Development of the Cerebral Cortex, Yale
• Building of the Cerebral Cortex, a technical description, an animation of neuronal migration
• Head size charts for boys and girls
• Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

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Brain and Tissue Banks for Developmental Disorders - Telephone: 1-800-847-1539

(in contract with The National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development)

Accepts donations of organs and tissues from babies, children, fetuses, etc. who have died from chromosome disorders, encephalopathies, amnioacidopathies, leukodystrophies, lysosomal disorders, neurological disorders, SIDS, unexplained MR, autism, etc. The tissue is utilized in research.

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To locate a genetic counselor or clinical geneticist in your area:

• Professional Genetics Societies
• Genetic clinics, centers, departments

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