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Cerebral Hypoplasia

__Introduction__

Cerebral Hypoplasia is a very rare and can be a serious disorder. This disorder is commonly found in cats and other animals. After extensive research (really like 3 days of searching) I cannot find who dicoverd this disorder and when. There are a few people who have done research on this disorder by studing people who have this. The most commmonly known people with this disorder is a family in Turkey. This family has nineteen children and five of those nineteen have been diagnosed with cerebral hypoplasia. After learning this people started to worry about weather thier children could recieve this disorder. It was found that no one is more at risk than another, it is a completly genetic thing. Carriers are heterozygous for this autosomal recessive disorder and are not at risk for the disorder. (VLDLR-associated cerebrallar hypoplasia)

Below is a video of a young girl struggling with cerebral hypoplasia
 * 1) Diagnosis
 * 2) Transmission
 * 3) Signs and Symptoms
 * 4) Treatmentmedia type="youtube" key="Dox3_ox8C2U" height="385" width="480" align="right"