Kearns‐Sayre syndrome in twins
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (9) , 1399
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.9.1399
Abstract
We studied twin brothers who met all diagnostic criteria for the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS). The twins reinforce the view that KSS is a specific syndrome. They raise the possibility that the condition is inherited as a lethal dominant trait, a mode of inheritance that explains the observed paucity of familial cases. However, these cases do not exclude the possibility of an acquired cause, such as persistent viral infection of the brain.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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