NR4A2 Mutations Can Cause Intellectual Disability and Language Impairment With Persistent Dystonia-Parkinsonism

Silvia Jesús1, Isabel Hinarejos1, Fátima Carrillo1

  • 1Unidad de Trastornos del Movimiento (S.J., F.C., D.M.-G., A.A., P.M.), Servicio de Neurología y Neurofisiología Clínica, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED) (S.J., F.C., D.M.-G., A.A., P.M.), Spain; Unit of Genetics and Genomics of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Disorders (I.H., D.M.-R., A.S.-M., V.L., C.E.), Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, Spain; Joint Units INCLIVA and IIS La Fe Rare Diseases (I.H., D.M.-R., A.S.-M., V.L., C.E.), Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Valencia, Spain; Department of Pediatric Neurology (B.P.-D.), Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (B.P.-D.), Spain.

Neurology. Genetics
|February 15, 2021
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