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A Phenotypic Paradigm for Cerebral Palsy Genetics

Arterbery, A. S.; Gargano, M. A.; Bagley, A. M.; Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, J.; Rekerle, L.; Ordaz-Robles, T.; Danis, D.; Graefe, A. S.; carmody, L.; Blau, H.; Bauer, J. P.; Carroll, K. l.; Davis, J.; Gjyshi Gustafson, A.; Arenas-Diaz, A. L.; Hernandez, M.; Jacobsen, J. O. B.; Lemhouse, P.; Millet, D.; Giampietro, P. F.; Mukherjee, S.; Nairne, P.; Nice, E.; Plotkin, T.; Powell, K.; Raney, E. M.; Smedley, D.; Smith, P. A.; Soliman, D. A.; Westberry, D. E.; Davids, J. R.; Robinson, P. N.

2026-01-18 genetic and genomic medicine
10.64898/2026.01.13.25341946 medRxiv
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Disease-causing genetic variants can be found in a subset of individuals with cerebral palsy (CP), with variants deemed causal of CP having been published for at least 515 genes. We develop a statistical approach that treats CP as a phenotypic feature for which some genetic disorders confer an increased risk. Based on comprehensive literature curation we show that the null hypothesis of no CP association can be rejected for only 89 of the 515 genes. We applied these findings to the analysis of a cohort of 460 children diagnosed with CP in the Shriner Childrens network. We identified pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) variants in 60 genes in 15.8% of the children. Only 16 of the 60 genes had significant evidence for CP association in our literature analysis. Our results suggest that a stratified approach to attributing causality to genetic variants in CP could support precision genomic medicine for affected individuals.

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