Friedreich's ataxia. Revision of the phenotype according to molecular genetics

Brain : a Journal of Neurology
L SchölsC Epplen

Abstract

Friedreich's ataxia is an autosomal recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansions of an unstable GAA trinucleotide repeat in the STM7/X25 gene on chromosome 9q. We studied the (GAA)n polymorphism in 178 healthy controls and 102 patients with idiopathic ataxia. The repeat size ranged from 7 to 29 (GAA)n motifs on normal chromosomes and from 66 to 1360 trinucleotide repetitions in Friedreich's ataxia patients. Meiotic instability of expanded alleles was observed without significant differences in maternal and paternal transmissions. Thirty-six of 102 patients were typed homozygous for expanded (GAA)n alleles. Twenty-seven of these presented with the typical Friedreich's ataxia symptoms and nine patients with an atypical Friedreich's ataxia phenotype. Before molecular genetic diagnosis had been performed seven of these patients had been classified as early onset cerebellar ataxia and two as idiopathic sporadic cerebellar ataxia of late onset. In contrast, in one family with typical Friedreich's ataxia phenotype we did not find an expanded allele; this suggests that there can be either point mutations in the X25 gene on both chromosomes or locus heterogeneity in Friedreich's ataxia. The phenotypic spectrum o...Continue Reading

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