Ethnic variation in the clinical expression of idiopathic torsion dystonia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 715-721

  Almasy, Laura ^a,d   Bressman, Susan ^b   De Leon, Deborah ^b   Risch, Neil ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New York State Psychiat Inst and New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dystonia epidemiology; Ethnic variation; Idiopathic dystonia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; JEW; LARYNX DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; TORSION DYSTONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DYSTONIA MUSCULORUM DEFORMANS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXTREMITIES; GERMANY; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRELAND; ITALY; JEWS; LARYNX; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEW YORK CITY;

EID: 0030931372     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.870120515     Document Type: Article

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