Prenatal diagnosis of Friedreich ataxia
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Massimo Pandolfo; Laura Montermini
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive disorder, the most common of the inherited ataxias. It has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 50 000 and a carrier frequency of about 1 in 90 in Caucasians (Cosse Β΄e et al., 1997;Leone et al., 1990). It is extremely rare among the Chinese and Japanese