Restless legs syndrome: Confirmation of linkage to chromosome 12q, genetic heterogeneity, and evidence of complexity

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 591-596

  Desautels, Alex ^a,b   Turecki, Gustavo ^b   Montplaisir, Jacques ^a   Xiong, Lan ^c   Walters, Arthur S ^d   Ehrenberg, Bruce L ^e   Brisebois, Kateri ^c   Desautels, Amelie K ^c   Gingras, Yves ^b   Johnson, William G ^f   Lugaresi, Elio ^g   Coccagna, Giorgio ^g   Picchietti, Daniel L ^h   Lazzarini, Alice ^f   Rouleau, Guy A ^c  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 12Q; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 20144387708     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.4.591     Document Type: Article

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