Clustering of dystonia in some pedigrees with autosomal dominant essential tremor suggests the existence of a distinct subtype of essential tremor

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hedera, Peter ^a   Phibbs, Fenna T ^a   Fang, John Y ^a   Cooper, Michael K ^a   Charles, P David ^a   Davis, Thomas L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FOCAL DYSTONIA; GENERALIZED DYSTONIA; HEMIDYSTONIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIFOCAL DYSTONIA; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEGMENTAL DYSTONIA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DYSTONIA; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955003207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-66     Document Type: Article

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