Dopa responsive dystonia with Turner's syndrome: Clinical, genetic, and neuropsychological studies in a family with a new mutation in the GTP-cyclohydrolase I gene

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 806-808

  Nitschke, M ^a   Steinberger, D ^b   Heberlein, I ^a   Otto, V ^a   Muller U ^b   Vieregge, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopa responsive dystonia; GTP cyclohydrolase I gene; Turner's syndrome

Indexed keywords

DOPA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; LEVODOPA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTONIA; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; TURNER SYNDROME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031777984     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.64.6.806     Document Type: Article

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