Infantile Onset Spinocerebellar Ataxia 2 (SCA2): A Clinical Report With Review of Previous Cases
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...The intermediate-repeat CAG length (27-33 CAG/CAA) has been recently documented in association with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.(4) The expansion length of >100 is associated with the juvenile onset of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 and presents with multisystem involvement beyond the aforementioned neurologic symptoms, such as developmental delay, hypotonia, retinal degeneration, infantile spasm, and epilepsy....
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...1).(1) Normal CAG alleles range from 15 to 32 repeats, with 22 repeats being the most common in healthy individuals....
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...Minimal CAG repeat length in affected infants was 62, whereas all affected parents had 140 Journal of Child Neurology 29(1)...
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...There have been reports of numerous families affected with spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 since the first report in the literature.(14) Infantile onset of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 has been rarely reported in the literature....
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...The expansion length of >100 is associated with the juvenile onset of the spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 and presents with multisystem involvement beyond the aforementioned neurologic symptoms, such as developmental delay, hypotonia, retinal degeneration, infantile spasm, and epilepsy.(5-12) In India, spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 represents the commonest subtype described,(13) and it is expected that in large, multigenerational families, phenotypic and genetic variability will be encountered....
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...Infantile onset of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 has been rarely reported in the literature.(5-12) Clinical presentation in the proband was of a neurodegenerative phenotype with onset in infancy....
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