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Myoclonus-dystonia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and alcohol dependence in SGCE mutation carriers.
Neurology - 13 Feb 2007
Hess C W, Raymond D, Aguiar P de Carvalho, Frucht S, Shriberg J, Heiman G A, Kurlan R, Klein C, Bressman S B, Ozelius L J, Saunders-Pullman R
Abstract excerpt
Although myoclonus and dystonia are the hallmarks of myoclonus-dystonia (M-D), psychiatric features, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder and alcohol dependence, have been reported in three families linked to chromosome 7q21. As the epsilon sarcoglycan (SGCE) gene for M-D was subsequently identified, we evaluated the relationship between psychiatric features and SGCE mutations in these original and two...
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