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Friedreich's Ataxia 1978 — An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

A. Barbeau
A. Barbeau*
Affiliation:
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal and the Université de Montréal
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Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 110 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 1R7
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In the present overview an attempt is made to summarize the investigations carried out during the first part of Phase Two of the Quebec Cooperative Study of Friedreich's Ataxia. These investigations delineated the relative importance of various biochemical leads uncovered during the preliminary survey. It is possible to indicate some findings that may be primary and which should be pursued in subsequent investigations. Among these, the observation of an abnormal composition of high density lipoproteins in Friedreich's Ataxia appears to be the most important.

Type
Quebec Cooperative Study of Friedreich's Ataxia
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 161 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1978

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