Clinical symptoms and possible anticipation in a large kindred of familial restless legs syndrome

Movement Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 389-394

  Trenkwalder, Claudia ^a,c   Seidel, Victor Collado ^a   Gasser, Thomas ^b   Oertel, Wolfgang H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Autosomal dominant inheritance; Familial restless legs syndrome; Periodic leg movements

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME;

EID: 0030059442     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870110407     Document Type: Article

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