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Incidence of dominant spinocerebellar and Friedreich triplet repeats among 361 ataxia families.

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OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) types 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 and Friedreich's ataxia (FA) among a large panel of ataxia families. BACKGROUND:The ataxias are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases that variably affect the cerebellum, brainstem, and spinocerebellar tracts. Trinucleotide repeat expansions have been shown to be the mutational mechanism for five dominantly inherited SCAs as well as FA. METHODS:We collected DNA samples and clinical data from patients representing 361 families with adult-onset ataxia of unknown etiology. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of FA were specifically excluded from our collection. RESULTS:Among the 178 dominant kindreds, we found SCA1 expansion at a frequency of 5.6%, SCA2 expansion at a frequency of 15.2%, SCA3 expansion at a frequency of 20.8%, SCA6 expansion at a frequency of 15.2%, and SCA7 expansion at a frequency of 4.5%. FA alleles were found in 11.4% of apparently recessive and 5.2% of apparently sporadic patients. Among these patients the repeat sizes for one or both FA alleles were relatively small, with sizes for the smaller allele ranging from 90 to 600 GAA repeats. The clinical presentation for these patients is atypical for FA, with one or more of the following characteristics: adult onset of disease, retained tendon reflexes, normal plantar response, and intact or partially intact sensory perceptions. CONCLUSIONS:Pathogenic trinucleotide repeat expansions were found among 61% of the dominant kindreds. Among patients with apparently recessive or negative family histories of ataxia, 6.8% and 4.4% tested positive for a CAG expansion at one of the dominant loci, and 11.4 and 5.2% of patients with apparently recessive or sporadic forms of ataxia had FA expansions. Because of the significant implications that a dominant versus recessive inheritance pattern has for future generations, it is important to screen patients who do not have a clearly dominant inheritance pattern for expansions at both the FA and the dominant ataxia loci.

journal_name

Neurology

journal_title

Neurology

authors

Moseley ML,Benzow KA,Schut LJ,Bird TD,Gomez CM,Barkhaus PE,Blindauer KA,Labuda M,Pandolfo M,Koob MD,Ranum LP

doi

10.1212/wnl.51.6.1666

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1666-71

issue

eissn

0028-3878

issn

1526-632X

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Incidence of dominant spinocerebellar and Friedreich triplet repeats among 361 ataxia families.