Familial essential tremor with apparent autosomal dominant inheritance: should we also consider other inheritance modes?

doi:10.1002/mds.20950

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Familial essential tremor with apparent autosomal dominant inheritance: should we also consider other inheritance modes?

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 1 Sept 2006

Ma Shaochun, Davis Thomas L, Blair Marcia A, Fang John Y, Bradford Yuki, Haines Jonathan L, Hedera Peter

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A positive family history is present in many patients with essential tremor (ET), but twin studies and segregation analysis have suggested that ET is not entirely a genetic disorder. Two genetic loci have been identified in autosomal dominant (AD) ET and polymorphisms in the DRD3 and HS1-BP3 genes have been proposed as the possible susceptibility factors for ET. There is also evidence for further genetic...

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