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essential tremor 6

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An essential tremor that is characterized by adult-onset kinetic and/or postural tremor usually affecting the upper limbs and that has_material_basis_in heterozygous trinucleotide GGC repeat expansion in the 5-prime untranslated region of the NOTCH2NLC gene on

An essential tremor that is characterized by adult-onset kinetic and/or postural tremor usually affecting the upper limbs and that has_material_basis_in heterozygous trinucleotide GGC repeat expansion in the 5-prime untranslated region of the NOTCH2NLC gene on chromosome 1q21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Postural tremor
  • Kinetic tremor
  • Intranuclear inclusion bodies
  • Head tremor
  • Vocal tremor
  • Cerebellar atrophy
  • Leukodystrophy