Genetics Sheds New Light on Congenital Hydrocephalus Biology

Dennis Lal1, Aarno Palotie2

  • 1Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany; Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.

Neuron
|July 27, 2018
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