Friedreich ataxia: an overview

MB Delatycki, R Williamson, SM Forrest - Journal of medical genetics, 2000 - jmg.bmj.com
Friedreich ataxia, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common
of the inherited ataxias. The recent discovery of the gene that is mutated in this condition …

Clinical features of Friedreich's ataxia: classical and atypical phenotypes

MH Parkinson, S Boesch, W Nachbauer… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and fifty years since Nikolaus Friedreich's first description of the degenerative
ataxic syndrome which bears his name, his description remains at the core of the classical …

Clinical and genetic abnormalities in patients with Friedreich's ataxia

A Dürr, M Cossee, Y Agid, V Campuzano… - … England Journal of …, 1996 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Friedreich's ataxia, the most common inherited ataxia, is associated with a
mutation that consists of an unstable expansion of GAA repeats in the first intron of the …

The relationship between trinucleotide (GAA) repeat length and clinical features in Friedreich ataxia.

A Filla, G De Michele, F Cavalcanti… - American journal of …, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Friedreich ataxia (FA) is associated with the expansion of a GAA trinucleotide repeat in the
first intron of the X25 gene. We found both alleles expanded in 67 FA patients from 48 Italian …

The GAA triplet-repeat expansion in Friedreich ataxia interferes with transcription and may be associated with an unusual DNA structure

SI Bidichandani, T Ashizawa, PI Patel - The American Journal of Human …, 1998 - cell.com
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disease is the most
common inherited ataxia. The vast majority of patients are homozygous for an abnormal …

Friedreich ataxia

M Pandolfo - Rosenberg's Molecular and Genetic Basis of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by progressive
neurological and cardiac abnormalities. It predominantly affects individuals of European and …

Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias

F Palau, C Espinós - Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2006 - Springer
Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias (ARCA) are a heterogeneous group of rare
neurological disorders involving both central and peripheral nervous system, and in some …

Phenotypic variability in Friedreich ataxia: role of the associated GAA triplet repeat expansion

L Montermini, A Richeter, K Morgan… - Annals of Neurology …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We studied genotype‐phenotype correlations in a group of 100 patients with typical
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), and in three groups of patients with atypical clinical presentations …

Friedreich ataxia: molecular mechanisms, redox considerations, and therapeutic opportunities

R Santos, S Lefevre, D Sliwa, A Seguin… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative damage are at the origin of numerous
neurodegenerative diseases like Friedreich ataxia and Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases …

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

L Schöls, G Amoiridis, H Przuntek… - Brain: a journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
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 …