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A 14-year-old girl with hyperekplexia having GLRB mutations.
Brain & development - 1 Aug 2013
Mine Jun, Taketani Takeshi, Otsubo Shusuke, Kishi Kazuko, Yamaguchi Seiji
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Hyperekplexia manifests as generalized stiffness and an excessive startle reflex to stimuli. It starts in the neonatal period and is transmitted in many cases via autosomal dominant inheritance. The etiology is an abnormality of the glycinergic neurotransmission system that is involved in inhibitory neurotransmission. Aberrations of five genes related to this neurotransmission system have been identified. The...
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