Article
[Genetic diagnosis, classification and clinical hereditary ataxia disease entities].
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie - 1 Feb 1997
Schöls L, Riess O, Amoiridis G, Riess A, Przuntek H, Epplen J T
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary ataxias are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases. Neither the clinical features nor the findings at autopsy provide a satisfactory basis for the isolation of distinct categories and classification. Recently, several gene loci responsible for inherited ataxias have been identified. For several hereditary ataxias even the disease causing mutations have been described. These findings lead...
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