Phenotypic heterogeneity of dopa-responsive dystonia in monozygotic twins

Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 637-639

  Grotzsch H ^a   Schnorf, H ^a   Morris, M A ^a   Moix, I ^a   Horvath, J ^a   Prilipko, O ^a   Burkhard, Pierre R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE; DOPAMINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DYSTONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 1342288319     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000110192.27794.E8     Document Type: Article

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