Fragile X Associated Tremor ataxia syndrome in FMR1 gray zone allele carriers

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-301

  Hall, Deborah ^a   Tassone, Flora ^b   Klepitskaya, Olga ^c   Leehey, Maureen ^c  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ataxia; FMR1; FXTAS; Genetics; Gray zone

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; CLONAZEPAM; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GABAPENTIN; PRAMIPEXOLE; PRIMIDONE; PROPRANOLOL; RASAGILINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; APATHY; ATAXIA; AUTOPSY; BALANCE DISORDER; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CLONUS; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSARTHRIA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FALLING; FAMILY HISTORY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GAIT DISORDER; HALLUCINATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; INCONTINENCE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SLURRED SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; TREMOR; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

EID: 84856975461     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.24021     Document Type: Note

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