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HS1-BP3 gene variant is common in familial essential tremor.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Mar 2006
Higgins Joseph J, Lombardi Roni Q, Pucilowska Joanna, Jankovic Joseph, Golbe Lawrence I, Verhagen Leo
Abstract excerpt
Essential tremor (ET) is a movement disorder characterized by a postural or kinetic tremor of the hands, head, or voice. It is typically a familial condition and affects 1% to 4% of the general population. The trait is genetically linked to chromosome 2p in some families. A variant (828C-->G) in exon 7 of the hematopoietic-specific protein 1 binding protein 3 gene (HS1-BP3) on chromosome 2p recently has been...
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