Cervical dystonia in monozygotic twins: Case report and review of the literature

Movement Disorders

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 714-718

  Wunderlich, Silke ^a   Reiners, Karlheinz ^a   Gasser, Thomas ^b   Naumann, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dystonia; DYTI; Inheritance; Monozygotic twins; Torticollis spasmodicus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CHROMOSOME 9Q; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE DELETION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SIBLING; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; SPINE DISEASE; TORSION DYSTONIA;

ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; TORTICOLLIS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0035412913     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.1128     Document Type: Article

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