Novel SACS mutations in two unrelated Italian patients with spastic ataxia: clinico-diagnostic characterization and results of serial brain MRI studies

Marcella Masciullo, Anna Modoni, A. Tessa, F. M. Santorelli, Valentina Rizzo, Graziella D'Amico, F. Laschena, Tommaso Tartaglione, Gabriella Silvestri

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Abstract

Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix Saguenay (ARSACS) is an early-onset, slowly progressive spastic ataxia associated with axonal-demyelinating polyneuropathy, hypermyelinated retinal fibers, and, sometimes, with an IQ in the lower normal range [1]. MRI studies typically show vermian, cervical, and dorsal spinal cord atrophy, and T2 and FLAIR linear hypointensities in the pons [2]. So far, over 70 mutations in SACS have been described, but the significant clinical variability amongst patients – especially in atypical cases described outside Quebec [1] – limits easy genotype– phenotype correlations. Here, we describe two unrelated ARSACS patients from central Italy carrying two novel mutations in SACS
Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)e77-e77-8
RivistaEuropean Journal of Neurology
Volume19
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2012

Keywords

  • SACS
  • ataxia

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