Cause of rare disease discovered

Friday, December 16, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or "paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions," a cause of epilepsy in babies and movement disorders in older children.

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