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Chorea-acanthocytosis genotype in the original critchley kentucky neuroacanthocytosis kindred.
Archives of neurology - 1 Oct 2011
Velayos-Baeza Antonio, Holinski-Feder Elke, Neitzel Birgit, Bader Benedikt, Critchley Edmund M R, Monaco Anthony P, Danek Adrian, Walker Ruth H
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the molecular nature of the neurological disease in the seminal family reported by Critchley et al in the 1960s, characterized by a hyperkinetic movement disorder and the appearance of acanthocytosis on peripheral blood smear. The eponym Levine-Critchley syndrome, subsequently termed neuroacanthocytosis, has been applied to symptomatically similar, but genetically distinct, disorders,...
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