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Friedreich's ataxia: from disease mechanisms to therapeutic interventions.
Antioxidants & redox signaling - 1 Jan 2000
Lodi Raffaele, Tonon Caterina, Calabrese Vittorio, Schapira Anthony H V
Abstract excerpt
Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is the most common inherited ataxia. FRDA is an autosomal recessive degenerative disorder caused by a GAA triplet expansion or point mutations in the FRDA gene on chromosome 9q13. The FRDA gene product, frataxin, is a widely expressed mitochondrial protein that is severely reduced in FRDApatients. The function of frataxin has not been established yet. Studies of the yeast and animal...
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