KANK1 and cerebral palsy: On the other hand, Lerer et al. (2005) reported a case of a familial cerebral palsy with a deletion in the KANK1 gene locus, including a large part of the intergenic region between KANK1 and DMRT1 (KANK1-DMRT1-DMRT3 constitute a synteny in both humans and mice) (Lerer et al., 2005; Kubota et al., 2018).