Is musician’s dystonia an inherited condition?
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1 Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Germany 2 Institute of Musicians’ Medicine, Dresden University of Music Carl Maria von Weber, Germany 3 Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany 4 Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 5 Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Medical Center, USA 6 Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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