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Myoclonus-dystonia syndrome due to tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency.
Neurology - 31 Jul 2012
Stamelou Maria, Mencacci Niccolo E, Cordivari Carla, Batla Amit, Wood Nick W, Houlden Henry, Hardy John, Bhatia Kailash P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To present a new family with tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency (THD) that presented with a new phenotype of predominant, levodopa-responsive myoclonus with dystonia due to compound heterozygosity of one previously reported mutation in the promoter region and a novel nonsynonymous mutation in the other allele, thus expanding the clinical and genetic spectrum of this disorder. METHODS: We performed...
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