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Early onset development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in less than 1 year in a patient with familial Friedrich's ataxia: Case report

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports
Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive ataxia, dysarthria, sensory loss. While neurological symptoms are prominent, cardiac manifestations significantly contribute to mortality. Cardiomyopathy in Friedreich'
Yasmine Ouaddouh, MD   +4 more
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Friedreich’s Ataxia: Clinical Presentation of a Compound Heterozygote Child with a Rare Nonsense Mutation and Comparison with Previously Published Cases

open access: yesCase Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2018
Friedreich’s ataxia is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with a GAA trinucleotide repeat expansion in intron 1 of the frataxin (FXN) gene. It is the most common autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia, with a mean age of onset at 16 years.
Vamshi K. Rao   +2 more
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Friedreich's Ataxia and Glucose Metabolism

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1988
Glucose metabolism was investigated in 21 patients with FA at the Instituto Neurogico, Cattedra di Clinica Medica, Milan, Italy.
J Gordon Millichap
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Frataxin gene editing rescues Friedreich’s ataxia pathology in dorsal root ganglia organoid-derived sensory neurons

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal-recessive disorder. Here the authors describe a DRG organoid from patient derived-neurons and co-culture with muscle cells to mimic the disorder in vitro and demonstrate potential correction of the phenotype by ...
Pietro Giuseppe Mazzara   +19 more
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Understanding the genetic and molecular pathogenesis of Friedreich’s ataxia through animal and cellular models

open access: yesDisease Models & Mechanisms, 2012
In 1996, a link was identified between Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA), the most common inherited ataxia in men, and alterations in the gene encoding frataxin (FXN).
Alain Martelli   +2 more
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Elevated Bile Acid 3β,5α,6β-Trihydroxycholanoyl Glycine in a Subset of Adult Ataxias Including Niemann–Pick Type C

open access: yesAntioxidants
Ataxia is a common neurological feature of Niemann–Pick disease type C (NPC). In this disease, unesterified cholesterol accumulates in lysosomes of the central nervous system and hepatic cells.
Nazgol Motamed-Gorji   +9 more
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Friedreich's Ataxia – A Clinical Diagnosis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2015
Friedreich's ataxia (FA) is an autosomal recessive spinocerebellar degenerative disease characterized by hyperexpansion of GAA triplets in Frataxin gene.
Md. Fekarul Islam   +3 more
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Friedreich’s Ataxia-A Case Report

open access: yesJournal of Rawalpindi Medical College, 2018
Friedrich’s ataxia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disorder. It is the most common cause of inherited ataxia. It affects approximately 1-2 persons per 100,000 population.[i] It occurs due to a mutation that results in the homozygous expansion of Guanosine
Tahreem Muntaha   +3 more
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