A case of Spinocerebellar Ataxia from ethnic tribe of Assam

Here we present the case of a 17-year-old girl belonging to an ethnic tribe (Bodo tribe) of Assam, presenting with bilateral cerebellar signs and with history suggestive of an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, who was found to have spinocerebellar ataxia 7 on genetic testing. This case thro...

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Autores principales: Kayal, Ashok K., Goswami, Munindra, Das, Marami, Masaraf, Hussain
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21808476
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.82802
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description Here we present the case of a 17-year-old girl belonging to an ethnic tribe (Bodo tribe) of Assam, presenting with bilateral cerebellar signs and with history suggestive of an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, who was found to have spinocerebellar ataxia 7 on genetic testing. This case throws light on the probability of more such cases in the multi-ethnic society of the North-Eastern Indian states, which are not studied or reported till date.
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spelling pubmed-31414762011-08-01 A case of Spinocerebellar Ataxia from ethnic tribe of Assam Kayal, Ashok K. Goswami, Munindra Das, Marami Masaraf, Hussain Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Here we present the case of a 17-year-old girl belonging to an ethnic tribe (Bodo tribe) of Assam, presenting with bilateral cerebellar signs and with history suggestive of an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, who was found to have spinocerebellar ataxia 7 on genetic testing. This case throws light on the probability of more such cases in the multi-ethnic society of the North-Eastern Indian states, which are not studied or reported till date. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3141476/ /pubmed/21808476 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.82802 Text en © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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