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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pulst, Stefan-M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Boston : Academic Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Nervous System Diseases > genetics.
Movement Disorders > genetics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to medical genetics and methods of DNA testing
  • Inherited ataxias : an introduction
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1)
  • SCA2
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 3-Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3)
  • SCA4
  • SCA5
  • SCA6
  • SCA7
  • SCA8
  • SCA9
  • SCA10
  • SCA11
  • SCA12
  • SCA13-16
  • SCA17
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)
  • Ataxia in prion diseases
  • Friedreich ataxia
  • Familial ataxia with isolated vitamin E deficiency (AVED)
  • Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS-SACS) -no longer a local disease
  • Ataxia-telangiectasia
  • Episodic and intermittent ataxias
  • Multiple system atrophy
  • Metabolic and mitochondrial ataxias
  • Diagnostic evaluationof ataxic patients
  • Parkinson's disease : genetic epidemiology and overview
  • PARK1 and α-synuclein : a new era in Parkinson's research
  • Parkin mutations
  • PARK3, ubiquitin hydrolase-L1 and other PD loci
  • tau Genetics in frontotemporal lobe dementia, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration
  • Wilson disease
  • Essential tremor
  • Molecular biology of Huntington's disease (HD) and HD-like disorders
  • Paroxysmal dyskinesias
  • Primary dystonias
  • DYT1 dystonia
  • Dopa-responsive dystonia
  • Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome
  • Genetics of familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (FIBGC)
  • Myoclonus and myoclonus-dystonias
  • Mitochondrial mutations in Parkinson's disease and dystonias
  • Genetics of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
  • The genetics of restless legs syndrome
  • Other adult-onset movement disorders with a genetic basis
  • Ethical issues in genetic testing for movement disorders