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Psychiatric and cognitive phenotype in children and adolescents with myotonic dystrophy.
European child & adolescent psychiatry - 1 Dec 2009
Douniol Marie, Jacquette Aurélia, Guilé Jean-Marc, Tanguy Marie-Laure, Angeard Nathalie, Héron Delphine, Plaza Monique, Cohen David
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most frequent inherited neuromuscular disorder. The juvenile form has been associated with cognitive and psychiatric dysfunction, but the phenotype remains unclear. We reviewed the literature to examine the psychiatric phenotype of juvenile DM1 and performed an admixture analysis of the IQ distribution of our own patients, as we hypothesised a bimodal distribution....
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