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Articles tagged "Spasticity: Genetics"

  • 2016 International Congress

    Familial SPG17/distal hereditary motor neuropathy type V– Complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia with many faces

    T. Musacchio, A.K. Zaum, N. Üceyler, C. Sommer, N. Pfeifroth, K. Reiners, E. Kunstmann, J. Volkmann, S. Rost, S. Klebe (Würzburg, Germany)

    Objective: We present the clinical and genetic results of a SPG17 family with a vast intrafamilial phenotype from subclinical signs to a severe and rapidly…
  • 2016 International Congress

    Clinical and genetic analyses in a cohort of the Taiwanese patients with apparently sporadic pure spastic paraplegia

    Y.Y. Chang, Y.F. Chen, T.H. Yeh, Y.R. Wu, C.H. Tsai, Y.C. Chang, W.J. Hwang, H.C. Kuo, C.C. Huang, C.C. Lin, Y.Y. Jian, H.C. Shen, C.S. Lu, M.Y. Lan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

    Objective: To systemically screen some common spastic paraplegia genes (SPG) in the Taiwanese patients with apparently sporadic pure spastic paraplegia. Background: Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP)…
  • 2016 International Congress

    A novel phenotype associated with GRN mutations: Spastic ataxia

    I. Faber, J.R.M. Prota, A.R.M. Martinez, B.S. Carvalho, Í.T. Lopes-Cendes, M.C. França Jr (Campinas, Brazil)

    Objective: We report a patient with Spastic Ataxia caused by new homozygous mutations in the GRN gene. Background: The gene GRN located on chromosome 17…
  • 2016 International Congress

    A clinico-genetical study in a large cohort of patients with spastic paraplegia type 4 (SPG4)

    A. Orlacchio, M. Mearini, L. Pedace, A. Casella, C. Montecchiani, F. Gaudiello, M. Maurialuisa, R. Massa, C. Caltagirone, R.P. Munhoz, J.L. Pedroso, O.G.P. Barsottini, T. Kawarai (Rome, Italy)

    Objective: This study includes the evaluation of a comprehensive spectrum of neurological features and the mutational screening of the SPG4/SPAST gene in patients with hereditary…
  • 2016 International Congress

    A rare genetic transcriptomopathy syndrome involving TAF1 leading to insights into more common neurologic disorders, including X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP)

    G.J. Lyon (New York, NY, USA)

    Objective: We set out to discover the genetic basis of an X-linked genetic syndrome presenting with global developmental delay, intellectual disability, characteristic facial dysmorphology, generalized…
  • 2016 International Congress

    Bristle hair may point to hereditary spastic paraplegia type SPG35/ FAHN

    T.W. Rattay, A.S. Söhn, K.N. Karle, S. Wiethoff, J. Reichbauer, M. Döbler-Neumann, I. Krägeloh-Mann, A. Münchau, B. Wilken, P. Bauer, L. Schöls, R. Schüle (Tübingen, Germany)

    Objective: Finding new phenotypic features or biomarkers in hereditary spastic paraplegia type SPG35 / Fatty Acid Hydroxylase-associated Neurodegeneration (FAHN) to help clinicians to identify this…
  • 2016 International Congress

    Levodopa-responsive hereditary spastic paraplegia, SPG35, due to FA2H mutations in siblings

    Y. Xing, J.R. Friedman (La Jolla, CA, USA)

    Objective: To describe FA2H mutations, one novel, in siblings with SPG35 with symptoms responsive to levodopa. Background: Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a phenotypically and…
  • 2016 International Congress

    A homozygous loss-of-function mutation in DNAJA3 causes hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with spastic paraplegia (HMSN type V)

    T. Kawarai, R. Miyamoto, Y. Kuroda, M. Omoto, M. Ueyama, N. Murakami, T. Furukawa, R. Oki, A. Mori, Y. Osaki, C. Banzrai, H. Nodera, A. Orlacchio, A. Hashiguchi, Y. Higuchi, H. Takashima, T. Kanda, Y. Izumi, Y. Nagai, T. Mitsui, R. Kaji (Tokushima, Japan)

    Objective: To identify a genetic cause for hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy with spastic paraplegia (HMSN type V). Background: Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) constitutes a…
  • 2016 International Congress

    Novel variants in the SACS gene in a first Central-Eastern European family with autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS)

    M. Schinwelski, M. Krygier, J. Slawek, M. Zuk, M. Rydzanicz, A. Walczak, P. Stawinski, A. Konkel, M. Sildatke-Bauer, R. Ploski, J. Limon (Gdansk, Poland)

    Objective: To present genetics, clinical description and natural history of the disease in four members of a Polish family with novel variants in the SACS…
  • 2016 International Congress

    Hereditary spastic paraplegia caused by heterozygous AFG3L2 and SPG7 mutations

    C.D. Stephen, J.D. Schmahmann (Boston, MA, USA)

    Objective: To report a new late-onset autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia caused by heterozygous mutations in the AFG3L2 and SPG7 genes. Background: The hereditary spastic paraplegias…
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