Sentences with phrase «signs of microcephaly»

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For example, MCPH1 and ASPM cause microcephaly when mutated, FOXP2 causes speech defects, and all three show signs of selection pressure during human, but not chimp, evolution.

Zecavati is a pediatric neurologist who treats children with microcephaly and can describe the neurologic signs and symptoms associated with microcephaly, including the various causes of microcephaly and how microcephaly affects a child's development and cognitive abilities.

But in and around the tropics, public health officials and communities are already fixated on the rapid spread of the virus, particularly given signs (but not yet direct evidence) that Zika is causing the devastating brain malformation microcephaly in babies born to some infected women in affected zones in Brazil and elsewhere.