A five-generation family with occipital encephalocele

This study reports a Chinese family that has suffered from occipital encephalocele over five generations with a pattern of autosomal dominant inheritance. There were 113 family members in this family, and 21 of them had an occipital subscalp encephalocele. The patients with the disease showed normal or nearly normal neurological function. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.