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ArticleTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2019

Childhood-Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia 3: Tongue Dystonia as an Early Manifestation.

Nester Mitchell, Gaynel A LaTouche, Beverly Nelson, Karla P Figueroa, Ruth H Walker, Andrew K Sobering

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Article in Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spectrum of Dystonia in Spinocerebellar Ataxia.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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  2. Review
  3. Neuro-respiratory pathology in spinocerebellar ataxia.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nester MitchellDepartment of Internal Medicine, Grenada General Hospital, St. George's, GD.
Gaynel A LaToucheDepartment of Internal Medicine, Grenada General Hospital, St. George's, GD.
Beverly NelsonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Grenada General Hospital, St. George's, GD.
Karla P FigueroaDepartment of Pediatrics, Grenada General Hospital, St. George's, GD.
Ruth H WalkerDepartment of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Andrew K SoberingDepartment of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.
University of Utah · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Dystonia is a relatively common feature of spinocerebellar ataxia 3 (SCA3). Childhood onset of SCA3 is rare and typically associated with either relatively large, or homozygous, CAG repeat expansions. Case report: We describe a 10-year-old girl with SCA3, who presented with tongue dystonia in addition to limb dystonia and gait ataxia due to a heterozygous expansion of 84 repeats in ATXN3. Discussion: Diagnosis of the SCAs can be challenging, and even more so in children. Tongue dystonia has not previously been documented in SCA3.

Indexed as

Age of OnsetAtaxin-3ChildDystoniaFemaleGait Disorders, NeurologicHumansMachado-Joseph DiseaseRepressor ProteinsTongueTrinucleotide Repeat ExpansionAtaxin-3ATXN3 protein, humanRepressor Proteinschildhood onsetlingual dystoniapolyglutamine tract expansion disorderSpinocerebellar ataxia type 3tongue dystonia

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PMID31565539
PMCPMC6744815
OpenAlexW2988312969

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