Environmental Epidemiology of Essential Tremor
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Environmental epidemiology of essential tremor.
BACKGROUND Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurological disorders. Despite this, the disease mechanisms and etiology are not well understood. While susceptibility genotypes undoubtedly underlie many ET cases, no ET genes have been identified thus far. As with many other progressive, degenerative neurological disorders, it is likely that environmental factors contribute to the et...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroepidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1423-0208,0251-5350
DOI: 10.1159/000151523