Article
Familial cosegregation of manic-depressive illness and a form of hereditary cerebellar ataxia.
American journal of medical genetics - 19 Jun 1995
Fernández Piqueras J, Santos J, Visedo G, Pérez de Castro I, Puertollano R, Montejo J, Ramo Tello C, Valle J
Abstract excerpt
We report on a Spanish family with cooccurrence of manic-depression and a form of hereditary cerebellar ataxia. All affected individuals in the second generation showed cerebellar ataxia and manic-depression simultaneously. Since anticipation has been described in both disorders and the pattern of segregation may be autosomal as well as X-linked, we have searched for a possible involvement of two candidate genes...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Ataxin-1
- Ataxins
- Biomarkers
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cerebellar Ataxia
- Chromosome Mapping
- Female
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
