Involuntary moaning in a Hispanic family with eight affected members

Maria Gisatulin, Malco Rossi*, Claudia Perandones, Christine Klein, Katja Lohmann, Marcelo Merello

*Corresponding author for this work

Abstract

Involuntary moaning has been reported in sporadic cases of neurodegenerative diseases. A five-generation Hispanic family with eight members exhibiting involuntary moaning, most of whom with isolated moaning in the absence of any additional neurological disorder carried a missense variant in the NEFH gene segregating in the family.

Original languageEnglish
JournalParkinsonism and Related Disorders
ISSN1353-8020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Funding

This work was supported by the University of Lübeck. The authors do not have any competing interest. MG received a scholarship from the University of Lübeck for her medical thesis (“Promotionsstipendium Exzellenzmedizin”). CK serves as a medical advisor to Centogene for genetic testing reports in the field of movement disorders and dementia, excluding Parkinson's disease. KL received funding from the German Research Foundation, the International Parkinson disease and Movement Disorder Society, and the Damp Foundation. This work was supported by the University of L?beck.

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