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Epsilon-sarcoglycan is not involved in sporadic Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

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This work was supported by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), KFG 113/1-1, and by the National Genome Network (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). The study was approved by the local ethics committee and was performed in compliance with German legal regulations.

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  1. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard-Karls University, Otfried-Muller Str. 27, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany

    Friedrich Asmus, Marita Munz, Petra Mayer, Alexander Zimprich & Thomas Gasser

  2. Department of Neurology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Sarah Schoenian & Oliver Bandmann

  3. Institute of Human Genetics, GSF National Research Center, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany

    Peter Lichtner

  4. Computational Genetics Group, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

    Bertram Muller-Myhsok

  5. Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Vienna, Austria

    Alexander Zimprich

  6. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

    Helmut Remschmidt

  7. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Rheinische Kliniken, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Johannes Hebebrand

  8. Academic Neurology Unit, E Floor Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Oliver Bandmann

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Asmus, F., Schoenian, S., Lichtner, P. et al. Epsilon-sarcoglycan is not involved in sporadic Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Neurogenetics 6, 55–56 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10048-004-0206-z

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