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Progressive Ataxia with Hemiplegic Migraines: a Phenotype of CACNA1A Missense Mutations, Not CAG Repeat Expansions.
Cerebellum (London, England) - 1 Feb 2021
Duque Kevin R, Marsili Luca, Sturchio Andrea, Mahajan Abhimanyu, Merola Aristide, Espay Alberto J, Kauffman Marcelo A
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We report a 52-year-old woman presenting with autosomal dominant progressive cerebellar ataxia and familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 whose genetic evaluation, negative for spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) types 1, 2, 3, and 6, revealed instead a heterozygous pathogenic missense mutation in CACNA1A (NM_001127221:c.1748G > A:p.Arg583Gln). A systematic literature review showed that Arg583Gln is associated...
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