1974
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100019818
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Sex-Linked Hereditary Ataxic Diplegia, the Borderland Between Cerebral Palsy and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Abstract: SUMMARY:After a review of the literature concerning hereditary cases of cerebral palsy, a family is reported in which ataxic diplegia appears to be inherited as a sex-linked and probably recessive condition occurring in 3 males in successive generations. This ataxic diplegia, occurring after an unremarkable perinatal course, is associated with mild to moderate mental retardation, congenital nystagmus and significantly small stature and prevents the acquisition of free walking. Associated extrapyramidal feature… Show more

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“…1989). An additional family, reported by Baar and Gabriel (1966), may have suffered from either the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome or Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (Dunn et al 1974), rather than hereditary spastic paraplegia.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1989). An additional family, reported by Baar and Gabriel (1966), may have suffered from either the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome or Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (Dunn et al 1974), rather than hereditary spastic paraplegia.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Among others, the frequency of hereditary cases is difficult to determine, as the occurrence of cerebral palsy in siblings is sometimes related to prenatal factors of environmental origin. Genetically dependent syndromes have, however, repeatedly been described, particularly among the ataxias [1,6], but they are also found among tetraplegias, diplegias, choreathetotics and even dystonics. The number of cases in which simple inheritance plays the major role probably does not exceed 2%.…”
Section: Fig 1 Incidence Of Cerebral Palsy According To Neurologicamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Blumel et al (1 957) andDunn et al (1974), but the condition described appears to have been slightly progressive, thus possibly falling outside the concept of cerebral palsy. Nevertheless, as pointed out byGustavson et al (1969) and Dunn el al.…”
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confidence: 95%