Article
Infantile onset spinocerebellar ataxia represents an allelic disease distinct from other hereditary ataxias.
Pediatric research - 1 Nov 1994
Nikali K, Koskinen T, Suomalainen A, Pihko H, Peltonen L
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary ataxias are a heterogeneous group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders characterized by symptoms and signs originating mainly in the CNS. A new representative of this disease group is infantile onset spinocerebellar ataxia, an autosomal recessively inherited syndrome so far reported only in the genetically isolated Finnish population. The etiology of hereditary ataxias still remains unknown, but...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Alleles
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Computer Simulation
- DNA, Satellite
- Female
- Finland
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
