Neurology · Neurology / Movement disorders; Pediatric neurology
Benign hereditary chorea
also: BHC; brain-lung-thyroid syndrome
Early-onset nonprogressive chorea with thyroid and lung involvement.
- Specialty
- Neurology
- Subspecialty
- Neurology / Movement disorders; Pediatric neurology
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected equally; Children: yes, onset in early childhood
- Gene(s) involved
- ADCY5, NKX2-1, PDE10A
- Alternative names & eponyms
- BHC; brain-lung-thyroid syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
NKX2-1 loss of function.
Gene(s) involved (3)
Symptoms & signs (4)
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