Friedreich’s Ataxia: Phenotype and Genotype in Eleven Patients

Introduction:- Friedreich’s ataxia is anautosomal recessive disease due to a mutationin gene X25. This gene codes for frataxin and itis located on chromosome 9. The disease iscaused by a triplet particular sequence of bases(GAA). Normally, the GAA sequence is repeated 7 to 22 times, but in people wi...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Vargas, Victoria Eugenia Villegas, Olga Lucía Pedraza, Clemencia Durán, Juan Carlos Prieto
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Colegio Mayor Nuestra Señora del Rosario 2006-06-01
Series:Revista Ciencias de la Salud
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Online Access:http://www.urosario.edu.co/medicina/CienciasSalud/documentos/vol4n1/02_fenogenotipo_vol4n1.pdf