Article
Hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation caused by mutations in the GTP cyclohydrolase I gene.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 1994
Ichinose H, Ohye T, Takahashi E, Seki N, Hori T, Segawa M, Nomura Y, Endo K, Tanaka H, Tsuji S
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary progressive dystonia with marked diurnal fluctuation (HPD) (also known as dopa responsive dystonia) is a dystonia with onset in childhood that shows a marked response without any side effects to levodopa. Recently the gene for dopa responsive dystonia (DRD) was mapped to chromosome 14q. Here we report that GTP cyclohydrolase I is mapped to 14q22.1-q22.2. The identification of four independent mutations...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Biopterins
- Brain
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- Circadian Rhythm
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dopamine
- Dystonia
- Escherichia coli
