Genetic epidemiology of autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay in northeastern Quebec.

Abstract:

:Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) is a disorder that has an elevated frequency in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean (SLSJ) and Charlevoix, two geographically isolated regions in the past of northeastern Quebec. The incidence at birth and the carrier rate in SLSJ were estimated at 1/1,932 liveborn infants and 1/22 inhabitants, respectively, for the period 1941-1985. The mean inbreeding coefficient was twice higher and the mean kinship coefficient 3 times higher among the ARSACS families than among control families. In the SLSJ region, the birth places of the ARSACS individuals and their parents did not show a clustered distribution. The genealogical reconstruction suggests that the high incidence of ARSACS in SLSJ and Charlevoix is likely to be the result of a founder effect. Because the disease is apparently unknown elsewhere in the world and a high proportion of French Canadians presently living in eastern Quebec have ancestors coming from Perche, a small region in France, it also suggests that a unique mutation accounts for most, if not all, of the ARSACS cases known in these regions.

journal_name

Genet Epidemiol

journal_title

Genetic epidemiology

authors

De Braekeleer M,Giasson F,Mathieu J,Roy M,Bouchard JP,Morgan K

doi

10.1002/gepi.1370100103

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-01-01 00:00:00

pages

17-25

issue

1

eissn

0741-0395

issn

1098-2272

journal_volume

10

pub_type

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