Motor Deficits and Hyperactivity in Cerebral Cortex-specific Dyt1 Conditional Knockout Mice

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DYT1 dystonia is a primary generalized early-onset torsion dystonia caused by mutations in DYT1 that codes for torsinA and has an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern with approximately 30% penetrance. Abnormal activity in the pallidal-thalamic-cortical circuit, especially in the globus pallidus internus, is the proposed cause of dystonic symptoms. However, recent neuroimaging studies suggest significant...

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