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12-24-2009, 07:49 PM
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Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
Cyclopia is the most severe form of holoprosencephaly, a condition in which the developing brain fails to divide properly into right and left hemispheres. Severe forms can include one central eye and a tubular nasal structure called a proboscis above it. Holoprosencephaly overall affects an estimated 1 in 10,000 newborns. Holoprosencephaly has several causes, including chromosome abnormalities and gene mutations. The nonsyndromic form accounts for 25% to 50% of cases and, by definition, is not caused by a chromosome abnormality, a syndrome or a teratogen. Many cases have no identified mutation. Most babies with severe nonsyndromic holoprosencephaly die before birth or soon afterward.  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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12-25-2009, 12:55 AM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
GAH! Call Jason and his argonauts... they can tackle this one early!
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12-25-2009, 10:41 AM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
Trisomy 13 can be a cause of cyclopia, and there are lots of other causes too. It's actually a defect in brain development that causes the brain not to divide into two hemispheres.
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12-26-2009, 01:12 AM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
I only really knew about it from what I heard in my bioethics class. I always found it a little interesting for the fact that people with this resemble old drawings of cyclops. I can't help but wonder if some time way long ago someone with this disease functioned like a normal person, creating the myths a bit further along... Oh, and thanks for the extra info.  |
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12-26-2009, 03:21 AM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
Finally someone gets it... you know how long I waited for a response to that. Fucking unbelievable. Thanks J.
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12-26-2009, 02:33 PM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
Whoa....this is the first time ive seen something like this. These deformity threads are really interesting...
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12-27-2009, 09:16 AM
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Re: Cyclopia Baby Pictures: Holoprosencephaly in Babies
From what I've read, it's pretty likely that some of the cyclops myths started out with babies like these... in an age when there were no photographs and most people didn't read, stories passed by word of mouth, and it wouldn't take too many retellings before a deformed baby turned into "My brother's friend knew this guy who was like eight feet tall and only had one eye, and..."
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