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Lysosomal enzymes in ataxia: discovery of two new cases of late onset hexosaminidase A and B deficiency (adult sandhoff disease) in French Canadians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

A. Barbeau ,
L. Plasse ,
T. Cloutier ,
S. Paris  and
M. Roy
A. Barbeau*
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
L. Plasse
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
T. Cloutier
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
S. Paris
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
M. Roy
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal
*
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 110 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W IR7
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We have measured in leukocytes the following lysosomal enzymes in II Friedreich disease cases, 11 “atypical” recessive ataxias, 13 neurological controls and 16 normal controls: hexosaminidase A and B; (3-galactosidase and neuraminidase (labile and cold stable, or A and B). The lysosomal enzyme deficiencies known to produce certain forms of spinocerebellar degeneration were not present in Friedreich's disease or the Charievoix-Saguenay syndrome. The very small scale survey of “atypical” recessive ataxias revealed 3 cases of severe deficiencies in hexosaminidase activity. Two adult brothers presenting with the clinical phenotype of Kugelberg-Welander disease (one also with ataxia), were shown to have a severe deficiency of both HEX A and HEX B activity (Sandhoff biochemical pattern). This is the first such report. A further adult female patient, unrelated to the others, had a severe isolated deficiency of HEX B and presented with a very slowly progressive and mild ataxia with severe internal strabismus. These patients and their families are being studied clinically and biochemically in greater detail and will be reported elsewhere. However these preliminary findings justify screening for such lysosomal defects in all cases of “atypical” recessive ataxia.

Type
C—Biochemistry
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 11 , Issue S4 , November 1984 , pp. 601 - 606
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1984

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