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Clinical characteristics and HLA typing of a family with Kleine-Levin syndrome.
Sleep medicine - 1 Jul 2008
BaHammam Ahmed S, GadElRab Mohamed O, Owais Suriya M, Alswat Khalid, Hamam Khalid D
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BACKGROUND: Kleine-Levin syndrome (KLS) is a rare disorder of unknown etiology. To date, only four familial cases have been described. The possible presence of genetic and autoimmune processes has been postulated recently. Our objective was to report for the first time a multiplex KLS Saudi family with 6 out of 12 family members affected. METHODS: The demographic and clinical features of the six affected family...
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