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The gene for hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation maps to chromosome 14q.
Annals of neurology - 1 Mar 1995
Tanaka H, Endo K, Tsuji S, Nygaard T G, Weeks D E, Nomura Y, Segawa M
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation (HPD) is a childhood-onset, postural dystonia that is characterized by marked diurnal fluctuation and a dramatic response to levodopa. Recently, the gene for dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD), an autosomal dominant dystonia showing similarly marked response to levodopa, has been mapped to chromosome 14q. Since HPD and DRD share many clinical...
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