Early-onset progressive encephalopathy-spastic ataxia-distal spinal muscular atrophy syndrome
A rare genetic neurodegenerative disease characterized by neonatal to infantile onset of hypotonia developmental delay regression of motor skills with distal amyotrophy ataxia and spasticity absent speech or dysarthria and moderate to severe cognitive impairment. Optic atrophy may also be associated. Brain imaging shows cerebellar atrophy and thin corpus callosum as well as brain iron accumulation in the pallidum and substantia nigra beginning during the second decade of life.
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Advocacy Organizations
Childhood Dementia Initiative
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DDX3X Foundation
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association
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Genetic Support Network of Victoria
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KIF1A.ORG
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Ataxia and me
To relieve the needs of sufferers of Ataxia or other neurological disorders, their families and carers for the public benefit by providing patient led support and by raising awareness of such conditions."
National Ataxia Foundation
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Syndromes Without A Name (SWAN) Australia
Provide information, support and advocacy to families caring for a child with an undiagnosed or rare genetic condition.
Moonshots for Unicorns
Curing single-gene disorders
COMBINEDBrain Inc
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Clinical Trials
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