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Clinical and genetic study of essential tremor in the Italian population.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Feb 2001
Abbruzzese G, Pigullo S, Di Maria E, Martinelli P, Barone P, Marchese R, Scaglione C, Assini A, Lucetti C, Berardelli A, Calzetti S, Bellone E, Ajmar F, Mandich P
Abstract excerpt
Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common movement disorders. The pathogenesis is as yet unknown, although a genetic cause has long been recognised. Clinical and molecular evidence suggested that the ET gene contains a CAG expanded region. We examined a cohort of 240 Italian ET patients, classified as familial (193 cases) and sporadic (47 cases). The clinical manifestations of ET patients confirmed that the...
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