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Early onset parkinsonism with diurnal fluctuation maps to a locus for juvenile parkinsonism.
Neurology - 1 May 1998
Matsumine H, Yamamura Y, Kobayashi T, Nakamura S, Kuzuhara S, Mizuno Y
Abstract excerpt
Early onset parkinsonism with diurnal fluctuation (EPDF) is a dopa-responsive parkinsonism characterized by early onset and improvement of parkinsonian symptoms after sleep. A pathologic study of one case of EPDF showed selective neuronal degeneration in the zona compacta of the substantia nigra without Lewy body formation. To determine the disease locus for EPDF, the authors examined 53 members of 17 EPDF...
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