Gender dimorphism in siblings with schizophrenia-like psychosis due to Niemann-Pick disease type C.

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We describe the differential presentation of schizophrenia-like psychosis in two siblings with the 'variant' biochemical presentation of adult Niemann-Pick disease type C. The male sibling presented with psychosis at age 16 years and cognitive and motor disturbance at age 25 years, whereas his elder sister, sharing the same mutation but showing less severe biochemical, neuroimaging and ocular motor parameters,...

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