PubMed · 1994028
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F E James. 1991. Saint Vitus' dance.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1994028/
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Striatal cholinergic dysfunction may be important in Huntington disease (HD). We studied whether donepezil improves chorea, cognition, and quality of life (QoL) in HD. Thirty patients were randomly assigned to treatment with donepezil or placebo. At the doses studied, donepezil did not improve chorea, cognition, or QoL. Adverse events were similar between both groups. Based on this small sample study, donepezil was not an effective treatment for HD.
The authors analyse the correspondence between Eça de Queiroz, a well-known Portuguese writer, and his wife, in 1900, describing the neurological disease of their second son, José Maria d'Eça de Queiroz, know as Zezé. In those letters, the writer mentions chorea as his son diagnosis, explaining in detail its clinical picture. In addition, the writer reveals the medical thoughts of the time about the aetiology, treatment and natural history of Sydenham's Chorea.
Two recurrent missense mutations (c.20C>T: A7V; c.26C>T: A9V) in the gene encoding the myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 (MR-1) have been shown to cause autosomal dominant paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia (PNKD) in 13 families of primarily European ancestry. Here we report an Omani PNKD family with seven affected family members and autosomal dominant inheritance. Our linkage analysis provided consistent positional evidence that the MR-1 gene could be the responsible disease gene. Sequence analysis identified a MR-1 missense mutation (c.20C>T; A7V) in the affected family members, whereas it was not present in five unaffected family members and 129 population controls. Taking into account that previous haplotype analyses did not reveal evidence for common founders among several PNKD families, our present findings strengthen three implications: (1) autosomal dominant PNKD seems to be a homogenous disorder, for which the MR-1 gene is the major disease gene; (2) mainly two recurrent MR-1 missense mutations (57% V7, 43% V9) account for the genetic variance of familial PNKD; (3) it supports current evidence that some of the recurrent MR-1 mutations may have arisen independently by de novo mutation at functionally convergent key sites of the brain-specific MR-1L isoform.