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Inherited myoclonus-dystonia and epilepsy: further evidence of an association?
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Dec 2004
O'Riordan Sean, Ozelius Laurie J, de Carvalho Aguiar Patricia, Hutchinson Michael, King Mary, Lynch Tim
Abstract excerpt
Epilepsy and electroencephalogram (EEG) abnormalities have been considered exclusion criteria for the clinical diagnosis of myoclonus-dystonia (M-D). We report on the second M-D family in which several clinically affected epsilon-sarcoglycan gene (SGCE) mutation carriers have seizures in addition to myoclonus and dystonia, adding to the evidence that epilepsy and EEG abnormalities may form part of the phenotypic...
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