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Tourettism associated with Huntington's disease
Author(s) -
Jankovic Joseph,
Ashizawa Tetsuo
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.870100116
Subject(s) - huntington's disease , chorea , tics , disease , degenerative disease , movement disorders , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , pathology
Abstract The identification of the gene for Huntington's disease (HD) has made it possible to diagnose patients with HD who present with unusual or atypical features. We describe a 41‐year‐old man whose intial manifestation of HD was dominated by the presence of motor and vocal tics and other features of Tourette's syndrome. This case illustrates the broad range of clinical manifestation of HD and the usefulness of testing for the HD mutation in selected cases with familial movement disorders.