Parkinsonism and impulse control disorder: Presentation of a new progranulin gene mutation

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 618-619

  Wong, Sui H ^a   Lecky, Bryan R F ^a   Steiger, Malcolm J ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; PROGRANULIN; GRN PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DYSGRAPHIA; ECHOLALIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GAIT DISORDER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARKINSONISM; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; SPEECH DISORDER; TREMOR; BRAIN; EXON; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS;

EID: 67651151267     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22429     Document Type: Letter

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