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Primary dystonia, DYT13 type
Disease definition
A rare primary torsion dystonia characterized by focal or segmental dystonia with onset either in the cranial-cervical region or in the upper limbs. Age of onset varies between 5 years and adulthood, with a mean age of onset of 16 years. Clinical manifestations are generally mild and slowly progressive.
ORPHA:98807
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- DYT13
- Primary dystonia with mixed phenotype
- Primary torsion dystonia with predominant craniocervical or upper limb onset
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: Autosomal dominant
- Age of onset: Childhood, Adolescent
- ICD-10: G24.1
- ICD-11: 8A02.0Y
- OMIM: 607671
- UMLS: C1843264
- MeSH: C564354
- GARD: 10537
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2009) Español (2009) Français (2009) Italiano (2009) Nederlands (2009) Português (2009)
Detailed information
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- English (2011) - Eur J Neurol
Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2017) - GeneReviews


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