THAP1 mutations are infrequent in spasmodic dysphonia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1952-1954

  Groen, Justus L ^a   Yildirim, Eren ^a   Ritz, Katja ^a   Baas, Frank ^a   van Hilten, Jacobus J ^b   van der Meulen, Freerk W ^a   Langeveld, Ton P ^b   Tijssen, Marina A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; TRIHEXYPHENIDYL;

ADULT; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYT6 GENE; FEMALE; FOCAL DYSTONIA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; LARYNX; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OROMANDIBULAR DYSTONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RNA SPLICING; SEGMENTAL DYSTONIA; SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA; SPEECH; THAP1 GENE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-DYSKINESIA AGENTS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BOTULINUM TOXINS; CHILD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DYSPHONIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; VOICE DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052259998     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23682     Document Type: Letter

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