Article
Hereditary auditory, vestibular, motor, and sensory neuropathy in a Slovenian Roma (Gypsy) kindred.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jul 1999
Butinar D, Zidar J, Leonardis L, Popovic M, Kalaydjieva L, Angelicheva D, Sininger Y, Keats B, Starr A
Abstract excerpt
Members of a Roma (Gypsy) family with hereditary motor and sensory peripheral neuropathy (HMSN) and concomitant auditory and vestibular cranial neuropathies were identified in Kocevje, Slovenia. The illness begins in childhood with a severe and progressive motor disability and the deafness is del...
Topics
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Adult
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathy
- Humans
- Pedigree
- Roma
- Slovenia