Genetic study of narcoleptic syndrome.
Open Access
- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Genetics
- Vol. 15 (4) , 254-259
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.15.4.254
Abstract
In this family study of the narcoleptic syndrome, 52% of the probands had an affected first degree relative, 41.9% of the sibs of those probands with an affected parent were similarly affected, 33.3% of the parents of 2 affected sibs and 41.2% of the children (after a correction for age) had narcolepsy, cataplexy, or both.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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