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JOURNAL OF CHILD NEUROLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 1585-1589Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0883073811412825
Keywords
recessive; ataxia; cerebellar vermis atrophy; myelinated retinal nerve fibers; Charlevoix-Saguenay
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- Barrow Neurological Foundation
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Mutations of the SACS gene have been reported in patients with autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay from Canada (Quebec), Tunisia, Japan, Turkey, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany. Features that distinguish autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay from other recessive ataxias include sensory motor polyneuropathy and hypermyelinated retinal nerve fibers. We describe the clinical, electrophysiological, and radiological features in 2 white American siblings diagnosed with autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay. The 2 affected children are compound heterozygotes for nonsense mutations of the SACS gene (c. 3484 G > T, p. E 1162 X; and c. 11,707 C > T, p. R 3903 X). We have measured allele-specific SACS mRNA abundance in peripheral blood and show that these specific mutant mRNAs are not degraded. We suggest that in children with early onset cerebellar ataxia and spasticity, ophthalmological examination and nerve conduction testing may guide genetic testing.
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