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Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH): a review of clinical, molecular, and evolutionary findings Woods CG; Bond J; Enard WAm J Hum Genet 2005[May]; 76 (5): 717-28Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It is characterized by two principal features, microcephaly present at birth and nonprogressive mental retardation. The microcephaly is the consequence of a small but architecturally normal brain, and it is the cerebral cortex that shows the greatest size reduction. There are at least seven MCPH loci, and four of the genes have been identified: MCPH1, encoding Microcephalin; MCPH3, encoding CDK5RAP2; MCPH5, encoding ASPM; and MCPH6, encoding CENPJ. These findings are starting to have an impact on the clinical management of families affected with MCPH. Present data suggest that MCPH is the consequence of deficient neurogenesis within the neurogenic epithelium. Evolutionary interest in MCPH has been sparked by the suggestion that changes in the MCPH genes might also be responsible for the increase in brain size during human evolution. Indeed, evolutionary analyses of Microcephalin and ASPM reveal evidence for positive selection during human and great ape evolution. So an understanding of this rare genetic disorder may offer us significant insights into neurogenic mitosis and the evolution of the most striking differences between us and our closest living relatives: brain size and cognitive ability.|*Biological Evolution[MESH]|Animals[MESH]|Brain/anatomy & histology/embryology[MESH]|Cell Cycle Proteins[MESH]|Cytoskeletal Proteins[MESH]|Genes, Recessive[MESH]|Genetic Heterogeneity[MESH]|Genetic Linkage[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Intellectual Disability/embryology/metabolism[MESH]|Microcephaly/*genetics/metabolism[MESH]|Mutation[MESH]|Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics[MESH]|Organ Size[MESH]|Phenotype[MESH]|Phylogeny[MESH]|Selection, Genetic[MESH] |
