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Polygenic Risk of Spasmodic Dysphonia is Associated With Vulnerable Sensorimotor Connectivity.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) - 1 Jan 2018
Putzel Gregory Garbès, Battistella Giovanni, Rumbach Anna F, Ozelius Laurie J, Sabuncu Mert R, Simonyan Kristina
Abstract excerpt
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD), or laryngeal dystonia, is an isolated task-specific dystonia of unknown causes and pathophysiology that selectively affects speech production. Using next-generation whole-exome sequencing in SD patients, we computed polygenic risk score from 1804 genetic markers based on a genome-wide association study in another form of similar task-specific focal dystonia, musician's dystonia. We...
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