%0 Journal Article
%T The Movement Disorder of Brain-Lung-Thyroid Syndrome Can be Responsive to Methylphenidate
%A Genevi¨¨ve Bernard
%A Laurence Gauquelin
%A Luan T. Tran
%A Sylvain Chouinard
%J Archive of "Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements".
%D 2017
%R 10.7916/D84X5M9Z
%X Benign hereditary chorea is a rare disorder characterized by childhood-onset, non-progressive chorea, with or without associated respiratory and thyroid dysfunction.1 It is referred to as ˇ°brain-lung-thyroidˇ± syndrome when all three systems are involved.2 It is caused by autosomal dominant mutations in the NKX2-1 gene (previously TITF-1), on chromosome 14.3 It is a genetically heterogeneous condition, with over 30 different causative mutations identified.
%K Chorea
%K brain-lung-thyroid syndrome
%K NKX2-1-related disorder
%K psychostimulant
%K methylphenidate
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5666014/