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Identical ATP1A3 mutation causes alternating hemiplegia of childhood and rapid-onset dystonia parkinsonism phenotypes.
Pediatric neurology - 1 Dec 2014
Boelman Cyrus, Lagman-Bartolome Ana Marissa, MacGregor Daune L, McCabe Jane, Logan Willam J, Minassian Berge A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood and rapid-onset dystonia parkinsonism are two separate movement disorders with different dominant mutations in the same sodium-potassium transporter ATPase subunit gene, ATP1A3. PATIENT: We present a child with topiramate-responsive alternating hemiplegia of childhood who was tested for an ATP1A3 gene mutation. RESULTS: Gene sequencing revealed an identical ATP1A3...
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