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An African-American family with dystonia.
Parkinsonism & related disorders - 1 Aug 2011
Puschmann Andreas, Xiao Jianfeng, Bastian Robert W, Searcy Jill A, LeDoux Mark S, Wszolek Zbigniew K
Abstract excerpt
The genetic cause of late-onset focal and segmental dystonia remains unknown in most individuals. Recently, mutations in Thanatos-associated protein domain containing, apoptosis associated protein 1 (THAP1) have been described in DYT6 dystonia and associated with some cases of familial and sporadic late-onset dystonia in Caucasians. We are not aware of any previous descriptions of familial dystonia in...
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