• Title of article

    A Large Family with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 in Iran: A Clinical and Genetic Study

  • Author/Authors

    Haruo Shimazaki، نويسنده , , Reza Vazifehmand، نويسنده , , Mohhamad-Hassan Heidari، نويسنده , , Hamid-Reza Khorram-Khorshid، نويسنده , , Sassan Saber، نويسنده , , Shamsodin Hejazi، نويسنده , , Fatemeh Aghakhani-Moghadam، نويسنده , , Yi Ouyang، نويسنده , , Junko Honda، نويسنده , , Imaharu Nakano، نويسنده , , Yoshihisa Takiyama، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    459
  • To page
    462
  • Abstract
    The authors describe a large Iranian family with autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia, which included 14 patients in four generations. We examined seven patients who had expanded CAG repeats in the CACNA1A gene with repeat instability (24 and 25 repeats). Although all patients showed cerebellar ataxia, each patient exhibited peripheral neuropathy or spasticity indicating intrafamilial phenotypic variability.
  • Keywords
    CAG repeats , Iran , Peripheral neuropathy , SCA6 , Spasticity
  • Journal title
    Archives of Iranian Medicine
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Archives of Iranian Medicine
  • Record number

    662980