01.06.2019 | Letter to the Editor
COQ4 Mutation Leads to Childhood-Onset Ataxia Improved by CoQ10 Administration
verfasst von:
Ahmet Okay Caglayan, Hakan Gumus, Erin Sandford, Thomas L. Kubisiak, Qianyi Ma, A. Bilge Ozel, Huseyin Per, Jun Z. Li, Vikram G. Shakkottai, Margit Burmeister
Erschienen in:
The Cerebellum
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Excerpt
Ataxia is a clinical feature of hundreds of disorders, and even pure cerebellar ataxia without other symptoms can be caused by mutations in at least 40 dominant [
1] and 45 recessive genes [
2]. Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing has recently allowed the identification of novel genes involved in numerous rare Mendelian disorders including ataxia, but many cases of isolated or recessive ataxia still remain unexplained [
3,
4]. When there are two or more affected individuals from a consanguineous mating, gene identification using homozygosity mapping is an efficient way to identify new genes for rare disorders [
5,
6]. In rare cases, gene identification can lead to personalized therapy, as exemplified here. …