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SUBMITTER: Louis ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5374515 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Louis Elan D ED Badejo Funmi M FM Cristal Ashley D AD Meyers James J Hernandez Nora N Chen Karen P KP Naranjo Kelly V KV Park Jemin J Clark Lorraine N LN
Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) 20170325
<h4>Background</h4>Classically, the onset of head tremor in essential tremor (ET) patients follows that of hand tremor, such that there is a somatotopic spread of involved areas. Here we present a series of seven self-reportedly "unaffected" relatives of ET cases. These seven were clinically asymptomatic and had normal levels of arm tremor on examination, yet each evidenced a transient head wobble on examination. We estimate the prevalence of this phenotype within the two studies from which case ...[more]