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Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome in the Middle East

Report of a Cohort and a Multiply Affected Large Pedigree

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mary M. Robertson  and
M. R. Trimble
Mary M. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, and Academic Department of Psychiatry, UCMSM, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA
M. R. Trimble
Affiliation:
The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
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* Correspondence
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Abstract

In a cohort of five patients from the Middle East with the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, family history of a tic disorder or the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome was positive in three cases. In one of these there was a multiply affected pedigree spanning six generations. The phenomenology of the syndrome is the same as that described in Western reports. The familial pattern of inheritance and cross-cultural similarity emphasise the biological factors in the aetiology of the syndrome.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 416 - 419
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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