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Phenotypic overlap in familial and sporadic primary adult-onset extracranial dystonia.
Journal of neurology - 1 Nov 2012
Defazio Giovanni, Abbruzzese Giovanni, Girlanda Paolo, Liguori Rocco, Santoro Lucio, Tinazzi Michele, Berardelli Alfredo
Abstract excerpt
We recently demonstrated that familial and sporadic blepharospasms share several phenotypic features (including age of dystonia onset, sex, and tendency to spread) believed to reflect the etiology of a blepharospasm. To investigate whether familial and sporadic forms of primary adult-onset dystonia other than the blepharospasm also share phenotypic features, we studied the families of 98 probands with primary...
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