Article
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...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Child
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
- Circadian Rhythm
- Genetic Linkage
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Lod Score
- Parkinson Disease
- Pedigree
