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Key articles
Lesch M, Nyhan WL. A familial disorder of uric acid metabolism and central nervous system function. Am J Med. 1964;36:561-570. Abstract
Visser JE, Bar PR, Jinnah HA. Lesch-Nyhan disease and the basal ganglia. Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2000 Apr;32(2-3):449-75. Abstract
Jinnah HA, Ceballos-Picot I, Torres RJ, et al; Lesch-Nyhan Disease International Study Group. Attenuated variants of Lesch-Nyhan disease. Brain. 2010 Mar;133(Pt 3):671-89.Full text Abstract
Torres RJ, Puig JG. Hypoxanthine-guanine phosophoribosyltransferase (HPRT) deficiency: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2007 Dec 8;2:48.Full text Abstract
Jinnah HA, De Gregorio L, Harris JC, et al. The spectrum of inherited mutations causing HPRT deficiency: 75 new cases and a review of 196 previously reported cases. Mutat Res. 2000 Oct;463(3):309-26. Abstract
Fu R, Ceballos-Picot I, Torres RJ, et al; Lesch-Nyhan Disease International Study Group. Genotype-phenotype correlations in neurogenetics: Lesch-Nyhan disease as a model disorder. Brain. 2014 May;137(Pt 5):1282-303.Full text Abstract
Jinnah HA, Visser JE, Harris JC, et al. Delineation of the motor disorder of Lesch-Nyhan disease. Brain. 2006 May;129(Pt 5):1201-17.Full text Abstract
Jinnah HA, Visser JE, Harris JC, et al. Delineation of the motor disorder of Lesch-Nyhan disease. Brain. 2006 May;129(Pt 5):1201-17.Full text Abstract
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