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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] ; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohamadmostafa Jahansouz M.D.[[2]]

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Discovery

  • The association between hereditary inheritance and Friedreich’s ataxia was made first time by Nikolaus Friedreich.[1]
  • In 1996, the association between a GAA repeat expansion on chromosome 9 and the development of Friedreich's ataxia was discovered for the first time.[2]

Famous Cases

  • Geraint Williams: He is known for scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in an adaptive wheelchair known as a Mountain Trike.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nakagawa R, Iida T, Takenaka S, Fukamachi K, Mori A, Takahashi K, Asahi M (May 1987). "[PCBs in human blood and adipose tissue: levels and similarities on gas chromatograms]". Fukuoka Igaku Zasshi (in Japanese). 78 (5): 309–13. PMID 3117664.
  2. Campuzano V, Montermini L, Moltò MD, Pianese L, Cossée M, Cavalcanti F, Monros E, Rodius F, Duclos F, Monticelli A, Zara F, Cañizares J, Koutnikova H, Bidichandani SI, Gellera C, Brice A, Trouillas P, De Michele G, Filla A, De Frutos R, Palau F, Patel PI, Di Donato S, Mandel JL, Cocozza S, Koenig M, Pandolfo M (March 1996). "Friedreich's ataxia: autosomal recessive disease caused by an intronic GAA triplet repeat expansion". Science. 271 (5254): 1423–7. PMID 8596916.