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X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) usually presents in childhood as severe cerebral demyelination accompanied by axonal loss or in adults as a progressive spinal cord syndrome (adrenomyeloneuropathy). Rarely, patients present with adult onset spinocerebellar ataxia. We performed mutation analysis in a family with several members who had this rare phenotype and identified a single nucleotide deletion in exon 2 of the ALD gene. This is the first mutation analysis to be reported in this unusual phenotypic variant of ALD and the first deletion to be reported in exon 2.

Type

Journal article

Journal

Ann Neurol

Publication Date

05/1999

Volume

45

Pages

652 - 655

Keywords

Adrenoleukodystrophy, Genetic Linkage, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pedigree, Phenotype, Point Mutation, Spinocerebellar Degenerations, X Chromosome