Frequency of familial inheritance among 488 index patients with idiopathic focal dystonia and clinical variability in a large family

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1000-1006

  Leube, Barbara ^a,c   Kessler, Kirn R ^a   Goecke, Timm ^a   Auburger, Georg ^a   Benecke, Reiner ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focal torsion dystonia; Genetics; Inheritance; Pedigree; Phenotypic variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 18P; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORSION DYSTONIA;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0030693859     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120625     Document Type: Article

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