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Am J Med Genet A ; 176(1): 201-208, 2018 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28960836

RESUMEN

We report the case of a 7-year-old male of Western European origin presenting with moderate intellectual disability, severe childhood apraxia of speech in the presence of oral and manual dyspraxia, and hypotonia across motor systems including the oral and speech motor systems. Exome sequencing revealed a de novo frameshift protein truncating mutation in the fourth exon of BCL11A, a gene recently demonstrated as being involved in cognition and language development. Making parallels with a previously described patient with a 200 kb 2p15p16.1 deletion encompassing the entire BCL11A gene and displaying a similar phenotype, we characterize in depth how BCL11A is involved in clinical aspects of language development and oral praxis.


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Apraxias/diagnóstico , Apraxias/genética , Proteínas Portadoras/genética , Mutación del Sistema de Lectura , Hipotonía Muscular/diagnóstico , Hipotonía Muscular/genética , Proteínas Nucleares/genética , Fenotipo , Anomalías Múltiples , Encéfalo/anomalías , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagen , Hibridación Genómica Comparativa , Facies , Estudios de Asociación Genética , Sitios Genéticos , Humanos , Lactante , Discapacidad Intelectual/diagnóstico , Discapacidad Intelectual/genética , Masculino , Proteínas Represoras , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Secuenciación del Exoma
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PLoS One ; 10(11): e0142191, 2015.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26551648

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Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are often said to present a global pragmatic impairment. However, there is some observational evidence that context-based comprehension of indirect requests may be preserved in autism. In order to provide experimental confirmation to this hypothesis, indirect speech act comprehension was tested in a group of 15 children with autism between 7 and 12 years and a group of 20 typically developing children between 2:7 and 3:6 years. The aim of the study was to determine whether children with autism can display genuinely contextual understanding of indirect requests. The experiment consisted of a three-pronged semi-structured task involving Mr Potato Head. In the first phase a declarative sentence was uttered by one adult as an instruction to put a garment on a Mr Potato Head toy; in the second the same sentence was uttered as a comment on a picture by another speaker; in the third phase the same sentence was uttered as a comment on a picture by the first speaker. Children with autism complied with the indirect request in the first phase and demonstrated the capacity to inhibit the directive interpretation in phases 2 and 3. TD children had some difficulty in understanding the indirect instruction in phase 1. These results call for a more nuanced view of pragmatic dysfunction in autism.


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Trastorno Autístico/psicología , Comprensión , Habla , Estudios de Casos y Controles , Niño , Preescolar , Comunicación , Femenino , Humanos , Lenguaje , Masculino , Percepción del Habla
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