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A new form of childhood onset, autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia and epilepsy is localized at 16q21-q23.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Jul 2007
Gribaa M, Salih M, Anheim M, Lagier-Tourenne C, H'mida D, Drouot N, Mohamed A, Elmalik S, Kabiraj M, Al-Rayess M, Almubarak M, Bétard C, Goebel H, Koenig M
Abstract excerpt
Childhood ataxias are a complex set of inherited disorders. Ataxias associated with generalized tonic-clonic epilepsy are usually included with the progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PME). Five disease entities, Unverricht-Lundborg disease, Lafora's disease, neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses, myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibres and sialidoses, account for the majority of PME cases. Two rare forms of ataxia plus...
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