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Neuropathology Flashcards

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What is fluid collection within the extravascular space?

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Cerebral Edema

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What is excessive CSF accumulation that expands the ventricular system and increases ICP?

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Hydrocephalus

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What is the increase in CSF due to loss of brain parenchyma called?

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Ex Vacuo

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What type of herniation is associated with one-sided cerebral mass effect and what does is compress?

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Subfalcine Herniation (cingulate gyrus compression against falx cerebri; Anterior Cerebral a.

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What type of herniation causes compression of the medial aspect of the temporal lobe against the tentorium and what type of hemorrhage can it cause?

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Transtentorial (Uncal) Herniation; Duret hemorrhage (midbrain and upper pons; tearing of upper branches of basilar a.)

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What herniation is a lumbar puncture contraindicated for?

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Tonsillar Herniation (cerebellar tonsils herniate downward through foramen magnum)

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What is protrusions of brain/meninges through openings in the skull?

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Encephalocele (Cranium Bifidum)

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What is malformation of the anterior end of the neural tube?

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Anancephaly (absence of brain and skull; “frog-like” appearance)

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What does excess cells exiting the proliferating pool too early cause?

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Microcephaly

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What does too few cells exiting during early divisions cause?

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Megalencephaly

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What is the complete absence of migration from the ventricles?

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Subependymal (Periventricular) Heterotopia

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What is partial migration to the neocortex?

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Lissencephaly (no normal cortical layers formed)

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What is it called when there is disruption during the late stage of migration and cortical organization?

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Polymicrogyria (cobblestone appearance)

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What is the absence of the forebrain division into two hemispheres?

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Holoprosencephaly

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What is the congenital failure of development of the cerebellar vermis?

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Dandy-Walker Malformation

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What posterior malformation is associated with meningomyelocele and syringomyelia?

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Arnold-Chiari Malformation

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What is dilatation of the spinal canal by CSF?

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Hydromyelia

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What is a fluid-filled cavity (syrinx) within the spinal cord causing cystic degeneration called?

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Syringomyelia

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What are racoon eyes and battle’s sign associated with?

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Basal Skull Fractures

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What is an incomplete fracture of the skull called?

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Greenstick Fracture

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What is dementia pugilistica associated with?

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Repetitive concussions

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What are plaque jaune (old injuries showing retracted brownish appearance at gyral crests) associated with?

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Contusions

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What cerebrovascular injury is associated with a lucid period often preceding neurological signs?

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Epidural Hematoma

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What is generalized reduction of cerebral perfusion?

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Global Cerebral Ischemia

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What is associated with bilateral hippocampal damage resulting in anterograde amnesia and less severe retrograde amnesia?

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Korsakoff’s Amnesia

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What type of focal cerebral ischemia often causes nonhemorrhagic infarcts (pale infarcts)?

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Thrombotic Stroke (most commonly caused by atherosclerosis)

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Where are common sites of thrombotic infarcts?

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Carotid bifurcation, middle cerebral artery, basilar artery

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What type of focal cerebral ischemia often causes hemorrhagic infarcts and what is the reason?

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Embolic Stroke; due to reperfusion injury

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What are common sites of embolic infarcts and where do they originate from?

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Middle cerebral artery; left side of heart, carotid arteries, paradoxical

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What are small dilations at small artery bifurcations and what are they most commonly associated with?

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Charcot-Bouchard Microaneurysms; hypertension

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What are small non-cortical infarcts caused by occlusion of a penetrating branch of a large cerebral artery?

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Lacunar Infarcts

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What causes fibrinoid necrosis/thrombosis of arterioles and capillaries leading to microinfarcts and microhemorrhages?

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Acute Hypertensive Encephalopathy (due to increased ICP due to elevated diastolic pressure)

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What is associated with amyloid fibrils deposited in walls of leptomeningeal and cortical arteries?

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Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)

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What is the most common aneurysm of the brain and where does it occur?

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Berry Aneurysm (subarachnoid hemorrhage); circle of willis

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What CNS infection is associated with headache, fever, and nuchal rigidity?

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Meningitis

36
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What type of meningitis is associated with neutrophils, increased serum protein, and decreased serum glucose in the CSF?

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Bacterial/Pyogenic Meningitis

37
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What is diffuse inflammation of brain tissue?

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Encephalitis

38
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What type of encephalitis is associated with Cowdry type A bodies?

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HSV-1 (kids and teens)

39
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What type of encephalitis is associated with Negri bodies?

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Rabies virus

40
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What disease has a rapid clinical course causing dementia and death within 7 months?

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Prion Disease

41
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What type of prion disease is associated with spongiform transformation of cerebral cortex and caudate, putamen and formation of vacuoles within the neuropil?

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

42
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What disease is associated with oligoclonal bands?

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MS

43
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What disease is associated with a postinfectious autoimmune reaction to myelin?

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Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM)

44
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What disease is associated with a JC Polyoma viral infection?

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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

45
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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy is almost always found in what type of individuals?

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HIV patients

46
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This disease is thought to be due to oligodendrocyte injury related to edema induced by sudden changes in osmotic pressure.

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Central Pontine Myelinolysis

47
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This disease may present with rapidly evolving quadriplegia.

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Central Pontine Myelinolysis

48
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What disease has the most extensive injury involving proximal motor nerve roots?

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Guillain-Barre Syndrome

49
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What is the most common leukodystrophy?

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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

50
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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy involves a deficiency in what enzyme?

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Arylsulfatase A

51
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What disease is associated with Globoid cells?

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Krabbe Disease

52
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What x-linked disease is associated with impaired degradation of long chain FAs?

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Adrenoleukodystrophy

53
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What x-linked disease is associated with mutation in a gene encoding two myelin proteins?

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Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

54
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What disease results in the accumulation of N-acetyl-L-aspartic acid (NAA)?

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Canavan Disease

55
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What are the cardinal symptoms of thiamine deficiency?

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Polyneuropathy, Edema, Cardiac Failure

56
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What is the difference between dry and wet beriberi?

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Dry: when NM symptoms predominate; Wet: if cardiac failure predominates

57
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What is associated with hemorrhagic mamillary bodies?

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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy (abrupt onset of confusion, abnormal eye movements, ataxia)

58
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Pernicious anemia is associated with what deficiency?

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Vitamin B12

59
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Hippocampal neurons are especially sensitive to what metabolic disorder?

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Hypoglycemia

60
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Astrocytes in the cortex and basal ganglia develop swollen pale nuclei in what metabolic disorder?

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Hepatic Encephalopathy (elevated ammonia)

61
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What disorder is associated with hemorrhagic necrosis of the putamen?

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Methanol Toxicity

62
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What disorder is associated with bilateral liquefactive necrosis of the globus pallidus?

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Carbon Monoxide Toxicity

63
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What tumor is associated with Rosenthal fibers and BRAF serine threonine kinase?

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Pilocytic Astrocytoma

64
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What is associated with a butterfly pattern of the frontal lobes and corpus callosum?

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Gliobastoma Multiforme

65
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What tumor has a fried-egg appearance?

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Oligodendroglioma

66
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Chromosome 1p and 19q loss/deletion is associated with what disease and what can it be detected with?

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Oligodendroglioma; FISH

67
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What tumor arises from arachnoidal meningothelial cells?

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Meningioma

68
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What tumor is associated with Psammoma bodies?

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Meningioma

69
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What is the most common type of Meningioma?

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Sporadic (NF2 22q12 loss)

70
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What tumor is associated with pseudorosettes?

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Ependyoma

71
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What tumors are associated with neurofibromatosis type 2?

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Diffuse Astrocytoma, Meningioma, Ependyoma

72
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What tumor is associated with Homer-Wright rosettes?

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Medullablastoma

73
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Associated with mutation on the 17q chromosome.

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Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (Von Recklinghausen’s Disease)

74
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What is associated with mutation of merlin in 22q chromosome?

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Neurofibromatosis Type 2

75
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What is associated with mutation of the VHL gene on chromosome 3p?

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Von Hippel-Lindau Disease

76
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What is associated with mutation of hamartin on 9q or tuberin on 16p?

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Tuberous Sclerosis

77
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What disease is associated with ApoE4?

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Alzheimer’s Disease

78
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What disease is associated with neurofibrillary tangles?

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Alzheimer’s Disease

79
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Pick’s disease is a sub-type of what disorder?

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Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration

80
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Echolalia is associated with what disease?

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Pick’s Disease/FLD

81
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What disease is associated with Lewy bodies?

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Parkinson’s Disease

82
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This disease is associated with CAG repeats.

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Huntington’s Disease

83
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What is the clinical triad associated with Huntington’s disease?

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Dementia, Choreiform movements, Family history

84
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What is the most common spinocerebellar ataxia?

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Friedrich Ataxia

85
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What disease is associated with GAA expansion causing loss of function of the frataxin protein?

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Friedrich Ataxia

86
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What disease is associated with mutation in the superoxide dismutase gene (SOD1)?

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ALS

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