Autosomal recessive disorder characterized by low serum ceruloplasmin and increased hepatic copper content on liver biopsy.

A psychotic disorder characterized by a loss of contact with reality and the disintegration of the personality.

A rare disorder causing progressive muscular weakness characterized by aggresome-like inclusions in the myofibrils.

The XPD helicase mutation has also been implicated in xeroderma pigmentosa (XP), a disorder characterized by sensitivity to UV light and resulting in a several 1000-fold increase in the development of skin cancer.

A disorder characterized by eccentric behavior and anomalies of thinking and affect which resemble those seen in schizophrenia, though no definite and characteristic schizophrenic anomalies have occurred at any stage.

Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), a group of disorders characterized by delays in the development of social and communication skills.

More than 23 million people in the United States have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or diabetes mellitus, a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high blood sugar levels known as hyperglycemia.

When it becomes a mental disorder, that is, characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about everyday things that is disproportionate to the actual source of worry, it is diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).

MH susceptibility is phenotypically and genetically related to central core disease (CCD), an autosomal dominant disorder characterized both by MH symptoms and myopathy.

Frequent coups, military revolts, civil disorders and bloody riots characterized the 1960s.