Genome analysis uncovers new cause of rare movement disorder

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team ...
News-Medical.Net

Researchers identify CD99L2 gene as a cause of spastic ataxia

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team in Bochum and Tübingen has now solved one piece of the puzzle: The ...
Post-Bulletin

Disorder causing leg weakness may be hereditary despite family history

Spastic paraparesis comprises dozens of different types of disorders that can be inherited in several ways. Therefore, it is possible to have hereditary spastic paraparesis even if you cannot find a ...
Science Daily

Immune cells drive congenital paralysis disease

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...
JSTOR Daily

Early Juvenile Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-1–Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

Background. Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) may cause severe diseases such as HTLV-1–associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and infective dermatitis associated ...
Journal Gazette and Times Courier

Spastic paralysis foundation chair to speak at Kiwanis event

MATTOON (JG-TC) -- The Spastic Paralysis Research Foundation board chairman is scheduled to give a presentation during the Mattoon Kiwanis Club meeting on Wednesday. The Mattoon club reported that ...