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Clinical heterogeneity of recessive ataxia in the Mexican population.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Dec 2006
Rasmussen A, Gómez M, Alonso E, Bidichandani S I
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 75% of Indo-European patients with recessive ataxia are homozygous for frataxin gene (FXN) mutations and have either typical or atypical Friedreich ataxia (FRDA). Our previous analysis of 134 Mexican Mestizo recessive ataxia patients showed that FRDA is relatively uncommon in the Mexican population (10.4%). This article reports the evaluation of the phenotypes of these patients. Over half of the...
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