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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Guo L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2948914 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology 20100926
Etiology determination of neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) currently remains a worldwide common challenge on child health. We herein reported the etiology distribution feature in a cohort of 285 Chinese patients with NDDs. Although concrete NDD etiologies in 48.4% of the total patients could not be identified, genetic diseases (with the proportion of 35.8% in the total cases) including inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) and congenital dysmorphic diseases, constituted the commonest etiology ...[more]