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Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis: a rare disorder with a rare presentation [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Case Reports, 2012
A young man was brought for mental retardation, frequent non-bloody diarrhoea and swellings at ankles and elbow. He became bed-ridden due to cataract, mental retardation and pain in the back and lower limb. There were repeated pathological fractures and vitamin D deficiency without renal dysfunction.
N K, Agrawal, Sunny, Garg
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Rare single gene disorders: estimating baseline prevalence and outcomes worldwide. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As child mortality rates overall are decreasing, non-communicable conditions, such as genetic disorders, constitute an increasing proportion of child mortality, morbidity and disability. To date, policy and public health programmes have focused on common
Moorthie, Sowmiya   +19 more
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Genetic and functional analyses of SHANK2 mutations suggest a multiple hit model of Autism spectrum disorders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders with a complex inheritance pattern. While many rare variants in synaptic proteins have been identified in patients with ASD, little is known about their effects at ...
Assouline B.   +460 more
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Integrated Model of De Novo and Inherited Genetic Variants Yields Greater Power to Identify Risk Genes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
De novo mutations affect risk for many diseases and disorders, especially those with early-onset. An example is autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Four recent whole-exome sequencing (WES) studies of ASD families revealed a handful of novel risk genes ...
Schellenberg, Gerard D.   +61 more
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RARE STROKE-RELATED PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Stroke related adult neuropsychiatric syndromes can be classified according to four axes: behavior or personality disorders, disorders of the perception identification of the self, other people, places, and time, cognitive disintegration (acute ...
Mijić-Marić, Ankica   +9 more
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Longitudinal evolution of motor and non-motor symptoms in early-stage multiple system atrophy: a 2-year prospective cohort study

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2022
Background The progression of motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS) and the sensitivity of each item of the Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale (UMSARS) to change remain unclear in Chinese patients with early-stage multiple system atrophy (MSA). We
Lingyu Zhang   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The improvement of motor symptoms in Huntington’s disease during cariprazine treatment

open access: yesOrphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2023
Background Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterised by motor disturbances and non-motor (i.e., psychiatric) symptoms. Motor symptoms are the hallmark features of HD and take many forms.
Reka Csehi   +8 more
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Abnormal eye movements in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

open access: yesBMC Neurology, 2021
Background Abnormal eye movements are common in spinocerebellar ataxias Type 3 (SCA3). We conducted the research to explore the frequency of abnormal eye movements in Chinese patients with SCA3, to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics ...
Junyu Lin   +9 more
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An easyguide to rare diseases in Ireland and consensus for action for government, the general public, media and political parties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The aims of this guide are to: • Explain what a rare disease is and how it is defined in health policy • Provide insights into living with a rare disease • Identify priorities patient advocacy groups would urge the Irish Government to include in the
IPPOSI   +2 more
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Disease Modeling of Rare Neurological Disorders in Zebrafish

open access: yes, 2022
Rare diseases are those which affect a small number of people compared to the general population. However, many patients with a rare disease remain undiagnosed, and a large majority of rare diseases still have no form of viable treatment.
Myeongjoo Son, Cheol-Hee Kim, Dae Yu Kim
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