Familial isolated vitamin E deficiency

Familial isolated vitamin e deficiency
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 GroupMajor.minor
ICD-9-CM xxx
OMIM 277460 600415
DiseasesDB 30633

Familial Isolated Vitamin E Deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive[1] neurodegenerative disease. Symptoms are similar to those of Friedreich ataxia.

Cause

Familial Isolated Vitamin E Deficiency is caused by mutations in the gene for a-tocopherol transfer protein.[2]

Familial isolated vitamin e deficiency has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Doerflinger N, Linder C, Ouahchi K, Gyapay G, Weissenbach J, Le Paslier D, Rigault P, Belal S, Ben Hamida C, Hentati F (May 1995). "Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency: refinement of genetic localization and analysis of linkage disequilibrium by using new markers in 14 families" (Free full text). American Journal of Human Genetics. 56 (5): 1116–24. ISSN 0002-9297. PMC 1801469Freely accessible. PMID 7726167.
  2. ↑ Cellini E, Piacentini S, Nacmias B, Forleo P, Tedde A, Bagnoli S, Ciantelli M, Sorbi S (Dec 2002). "A family with spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 expansion and vitamin E deficiency ataxia" (Free full text). Archives of neurology. 59 (12): 1952–53. doi:10.1001/archneur.59.12.1952. ISSN 0003-9942. PMID 12470185.


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