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Recommendations for Evaluation and Monitoring of Patients with Joubert Syndrome and Related Disorders

Genetic Testing and Joubert Syndrome
January 2008

Update on the genetics of Joubert syndrome and genetic testing options
By Melissa Parisi, MD, PhD - January 2008

Update on the genes that cause Joubert Syndrome
By Melissa Parisi, MD, PhD - August 5, 2006


NPHP1 Gene Deletion is a rare cause of Joubert Syndrome related disorders
By M Castori, E M Valente, M A Donati, S Salvi, E Fazzi, E Procopio, T Galluccio, F Emma, B Dallapiccola, E Bertini the Italian MTS Study Group - February 21, 2005

Researchers Identify Joubert Syndrome Genes
Released Monday February 7, 2005 from NINDS

Gene for Joubert Syndrome with Excessive Brain Folds Discovered by UCSD Researchers and Harvard Team
Press Release Oct 19, 2004

Mutations in the AHI1 Gene, Encoding Jouberin, Cause Joubert Syndrome with Cortical Polymicrogyria
by the Scientists of UC San Diego - Oct 2004

Abnormal cerebellar development and axonal decussation due to mutations in AHI1 in Joubert Syndrome
by Russell J. Ferland, Wafaa Eyaid, Randall V. Collura, Laura D. Tully, R. Sean Hill, Doha Al-Nouri, Ahmed Al-Rumayyan, Meral Topcu, Generoso Gascon, Adria Bodell, Yin Yao Shugart, Maryellen Ruvolo, Christopher A. Walsh

Focus on prenatal diagnosis at the JSF meeting
by Dr. I Glass and Dr. D Doherty
The NPHP1 gene deletion associated with juvenile nephronophthisis is present in a subset of individuals with Joubert syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2004 Jul;75(1):82-91

Summary of NPHP1 gene identification
by Melissa Parisi, MD, PhD and Ian Glass, MD,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA - 2004

Third Joubert Syndrome Locus on Chromosome 6 mapped by European Group
by Eugene Boltshauser - Jan 2004

Scientists Responses: Some questions to the groups of Geneticists who are working on Joubert Syndrome
University of Washington - Dr. Philip Chance's office by Melissa Parisi, M.D., PhD
University of San Diego - Dr. Joseph Gleeson

UCSD Researchers Identify Chromosome Location for 2nd Form of Joubert Syndrome
By Dr. Joseph Gleeson and additional researchers - Sept 3, 2003

Future Research Directions in Joubert Syndrome
Summary and Future Research discussion at Scientific Symposium at the 2002 Joubert Syndrome Foundation Conference
New Orleans, June 27 - 28, 2002.

Breaking Research News
by Bernard L. Maria, MD, MBA

GeneReviews links to web sites of organizations that are national/international in scope, have a professional advisory board (or other internal or external mechanism for scientific review) and provide information that supplements the GeneReviews entry. See GeneReviews entry on Joubert Syndrome please use the following URL: http://www.geneclinics.org/query?dz=joubert

Uncommon Syndromes of Cerebellar Vermis Aplasia I: Joubert Syndrome
E. Boltshauser, R.L. Friede
Develop. Med. Child Neurol., 1978, 20, 758-763

Joubert Syndrome Revisited: Key Ocular Motor Signs
With Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlation
Dr. B. Maria et al
Journal of Child Neurology, Vol 12 pp 423-430, 1997

Neurobehavioral Development in Joubert Syndrome
J. Gitten, BS; D. Dede, PhD; E. Fennel, PhD; R. Quisling, MD; B. Maria, MD, MBA
Journal of Child Neurology, Vol 13 pp 391-397, 1998

Follow Up in Children with Joubert Syndrome
E. Boltshauser, M. Steinlin, K. Landau , M. Schmid
Neuropediatrics 28 (1997) 204-211

Cerebellar Dysplasias in Humans: Developmental and Possible Relationship
to Glial and Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors of the Cerebellar Vermis.

A. Yachnis, L. Rorke, J. Trojanowski
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Vol. 53 No. 1 January, 1994 pp. 61-71

Joubert Syndrome: Are Kidneys Involved?
E. Boltshauser, I Forster, T. Deonna, U. Willi
Neuropediatrics 26 (1995) 320-321

Clinical Features of Develop. Disability Associated With Cerebellar Hypoplasia
M. Shevell, A. Majnemer
Pediatric Neurology Vol. 15 No. 3

Clinical and Molecular Analysis in Joubert Syndrome
J. Pellegrino, M. Lensch, M. Muenke, P. Chance
American Journal of Medical Genetics 72: 59-62 (1997)

Joubert syndrome: A haplotype segregation strategy and exclusion of the zinc finger protein of cerebellum 1 (ZIC1) gene
Craig L. Bennett, Melissa A. Parisi, Melissa L. Eckert, Huy M. Huynh, Phillip F. Chance, Ian A. Glass
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
Volume 125A, Issue 2, 2004. Pages 117-124
Copyright © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Cerebello-oculo-renal syndromes including Arima, Senior-Löken and COACH syndromes: More than just variants of Joubert syndrome
Daniel Satran, Mary Ella M. Pierpont, William B. Dobyns
American Journal of Medical Genetics
Volume 86, Issue 5, 1999. Pages 459-469
Copyright © 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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