Clinical and genetic study of Friedreich
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Delatycki, Martin B.; Paris, Damien B.B.P.; Gardner, R.J. McKinlay; Nicholson, G
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Friedreich ataxia is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the FRDA gene that encodes a 210-amino acid protein called frataxin. An expansion of a GAA trinucleotide repeat in intron 1 of the gene is present in more than 95% of mutant alleles. Of the 83 people we studied who have muta