Concordant late onset of craniocervical dystonia in a pair of monozygotic twins

Movement Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1040-1043

  Sieberer, Marcel G ^a   Vieregge, Peter ^a   Klein, Christine ^b   Ozelius, Laurie J ^b   Wandinger, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSTONIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALLELES; BLEPHAROSPASM; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; TORTICOLLIS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0345008883     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8257(199911)14:6<1040::AID-MDS1025>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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