Article
[Movement disorders in childhood: classification and genetic update].
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Nov 2003
Roubertie A, Rivier F, Tuffery-Giraud S, Humbertclaude V, Claustres M, Cheminal R, Echenne B
Abstract excerpt
Abnormal movements are not unusual in childhood. Recent genetic progresses provide a new approach of childhood movement disorders. Several loci have been identified in paroxysmal dyskinesia, or in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. A gene has been cloned in Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome, and a gene has recently been implicated in benign hereditary chorea. Considerable advances concern the genetic of dystonic...
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