Large intergenerational variation in age of onset in two young patients with Huntington's disease presenting as dyskinesia

Pediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 896-898

  Holinski Feder, Elke ^a,b   Jedele, Kerry Baldwin ^b   Hörtnagel, Konstanze ^b   Albert, Angelika ^b   Meindl, Alfons ^b   Trenkwalder, Claudia ^c  

^a Department of Pediatric Genetics ^*  (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSKINESIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030777674     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.100.5.896     Document Type: Article

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