Late Onset Cerebellar Ataxia: clinical & genetic characteristics Transcription of Isabelle Thiffault’s speech at the General Assembly of CAFA on November 4, 2007 Diaporama PowerPoint (in French) Hello, my name is Isabelle Thiffault, I have been doing a doctorate for three years and a half under the supervision of Dr....
Isabelle Thiffault (PhD student) Grant holder 2003-2005 This short article has been subjected to different little steps which I have taken in the course of the last five years of training in genetics. It gives me great pleasure to share with you my progress on the subject which you are...
Scientific research has been carried out in Canadian regions in view of studying families presenting two new forms of ataxias By Inge Meijer, Bursary holder 2003-2005 Summary My interest in biology and particularly in human genetics developed while I was in high school and in my native country (Surinam), since...
Les caractéristiques neuropsychologiques de l’ataxie de Friedreich (2002), Robert Lalonde, Catherine Strazielle Résumé L’ataxie de Friedreich provient de l’expansion du triplet guanine-adénine-adénine du gène FRDA. Les patients se caractérisent par d’importants troubles sensorimoteurs causés par une dégénérescence cérébelleuse associée à des lésions majeures des voies spino-cérébelleuses, corticos pinales et lemniscates....
Location Score and Haplotype Analyses of the Locus for Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay, in Chromosome Region 13q11 (1999), A. Richter, John D. Rioux, J.-P. Bouchard, J. Mercier, J. Mathieu, Bing Ge, J. Poirier, D. Julien, G. Gyapay, J. Weissenbach, T. J. Hudson, S. B. Melançon, K. Morgan [Funded...
Amantadine hydrochloride treatment in heredodegenerative ataxias: a double blind study (1996), M. I. Botez, Therese Botez-Marquard, Robert Elie, Olga-Lucia Pedraza, Kristine Goyette, Robert Lalonde Abstract Objective-A group of 27 patients with Friedreich’s ataxia and another group of 30 patients with olivopontocerebellar atrophies were each randomly divided into two subgroups, one...
Linkage Studies of Friedreich Ataxia by Means of Blood-Group and Protein Markers (1987), B. J. B. Keats, L. J. Ward, M. Lu, S. Krieger, M. A. Wilensky, C. J. Foster-Gibson, M. Roy, M. Monté, A. Barbeau, N. E. Simpson, H. Eiberg, P. Tippett, R. Williamson, S. Chamberlain SUMMARY Friedreich ataxia...
