Article
[Juvenile GM2 gangliosidosis with progressive spinal muscular atrophy onset].
Revue neurologique - 1 Mar 1997
Rondot P, Navon R, Eymard B, Fardeau M, Turpin J C, Lefevre M, Bathien N, Wu Y, Baumann N
Abstract excerpt
GM2 gangliosidosis are caused by a beta-hexosaminidase A enzyme deficiency. Mutations in the gene leaving residual enzyme activity give rise to juvenile and adult forms of the disease which have a great clinical heterogeneity. We report three cases which have been considered for some time as Kuge...
Topics
- Adult
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Heterozygote
- Hexosaminidase A
- Humans
- Male
- Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
- Mutation
- Sandhoff Disease
- beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases
