Pathophysiogical and therapeutic progress in Friedreich ataxia.

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Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most common hereditary autosomal recessive ataxia, but is also a multisystemic condition with frequent presence of cardiomyopathy or diabetes. It has been linked to expansion of a GAA-triplet repeat in the first intron of the FXN gene, leading to a reduced level of frataxin, a mitochondrial protein which, by controlling both iron entry and/or sulfide production, is essential to...

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