Young-onset parkinsonism due to homozygous duplication of α-synuclein in a consanguineous family

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1829-1830

  Kojovic, Maja ^a   Sheerin, Una Marie ^a   Rubio Agusti, Ignacio ^a   Saha, Anirban ^b   Bras, Jose ^a   Gibbons, Vaneesha ^a   Palmer, Rodger ^c   Houlden, Henry ^a   Hardy, John ^d   Wood, Nicholas W ^a,e   Bhatia, Kailash P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Regional Cytogenetics Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA;

ADULT; BRADYKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DYSKINESIA; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENE DUPLICATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAKISTAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREMOR; YOUNG ONSET PARKINSONISM;

EID: 84871789737     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25199     Document Type: Letter

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