| Literature DB >> 12402269 |
Isabelle Vuillaume1, David Devos, Susanna Schraen-Maschke, Christian Dina, Arnaud Lemainque, Francis Vasseur, Guy Bocquillon, Patrick Devos, Carole Kocinski, Christiane Marzys, Alain Destée, Bernard Sablonnière.
Abstract
We investigated a French family with a new type of autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia that was excluded from all previously identified genes and loci. The patients exhibited a slowly progressive gait and limb ataxia variably associated with akinesia, rigidity, tremor, and hyporeflexia. A mild cognitive impairment also was observed in some cases. We performed a genomewide search and found significant evidence for linkage to chromosome 7p21.3-p15.1. Analysis of key recombinants and haplotype reconstruction traced this novel spinocerebellar ataxia locus to a 24cM interval flanked by D7S2464 and D7S516.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12402269 DOI: 10.1002/ana.10344
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ann Neurol ISSN: 0364-5134 Impact factor: 10.422