FXN, frataxin, 2395

N. diseases: 220; N. variants: 21
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Manganese is the link between frataxin and iron-sulfur deficiency in the yeast model of Friedreich ataxia. 16510442 2006
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is caused by a homozygous GAA repeat expansion mutation within intron 1 of the FXN gene, which induces epigenetic changes and FXN gene silencing. 24023969 2013
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Expansion of GAA repeats in the intron of the frataxin gene is involved in the autosomal recessive Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA). 12354077 2002
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is associated with a GAA-trinucleotide-repeat expansion in the first intron of the FXN gene (9q13-21), which encodes a 210-amino-acid protein named frataxin. 17703324 2007
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The DNA abnormality found in 98% of Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) patients is the unstable hyperexpansion of a GAA.TTC triplet repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene. 16857735 2006
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE (2009) The pathogenesis of Friedreich ataxia and the structure and function of frataxin.J.Neurol., 256 (Suppl.1), 9-17; Gottesfeld, J.M. 20413654 2010
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is a common hereditary degenerative neuro-muscular disorder caused by expansions of the (GAA)n repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene. 22262734 2012
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Studies with model compounds show that these histone deacetylase inhibitors increase FXN messenger RNA levels in the brain in mouse models for Friedreich ataxia and relieve neurological symptoms observed in mouse models and support the notion that this class of molecules may serve as therapeutics for the human disease. 22764181 2012
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Friedreich Ataxia is an inherited disorder caused by decreased expression of a mitochondrial protein called frataxin. 17075779 2006
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is the common cause of ataxia often associated with the expansion of a GAA repeat in intron 1 of the frataxin gene (FXN). 24011957 2014
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Very late onset Friedreich's ataxia without cardiomyopathy is associated with limited GAA expansion in the X25 gene. 9339708 1997
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Deficient expression of the mitochondrial protein, frataxin, is the primary cause of FA, which leads to adverse alterations in whole cell and mitochondrial iron metabolism. 28782591 2018
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is the most common form of autosomal recessive ataxia caused by a deficit in the mitochondrial protein frataxin. 20460268 2010
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE When a diagnosis of Friedreich's ataxia is considered patients should have frataxin analysis in addition. 9527151 1998
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Dorsal root ganglia, dorsal roots (DR), and dorsal root entry zones (DREZ) are vulnerable to frataxin deficiency in Friedreich ataxia (FA). 29044418 2017
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE It proved useful for confirming the presence of large expansions in the Friedreich ataxia gene following an ambiguous result of long-range PCR, as well as rapid pre-screening for large repeat expansions associated with Friedreich ataxia and SCA10 and the shorter repeat expansions associated with SCA12. 15096564 2004
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Patients suffering from the progressive neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia have reduced expression levels of the protein frataxin. 29200434 2017
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Lentivirus-meditated frataxin gene delivery reverses genome instability in Friedreich ataxia patient and mouse model fibroblasts. 27518705 2016
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The correlation of clinical phenotype in Friedreich ataxia with the site of point mutations in the FRDA gene. 10732799 1998
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Towards a structural understanding of Friedreich's ataxia: the solution structure of frataxin. 10903947 2000
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We describe for the first time the creation of clonal stem cells carrying a human bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) containing the Friedreich ataxia locus with an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter gene fused to exon 5a of the frataxin (FXN) gene. 19177134 2009
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In both these disorders, the mitochondrial abnormality is secondary to the primary nuclear mutation:CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene in HD, and GAA repeat in the frataxin gene in FA. 9714816 1998
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich ataxia (FRDA), the most common autosomal recessive ataxia, is caused in 94% of cases by homozygous expansions of an unstable GAA repeat localised in intron 1 of the X25 gene. 10347715 1999
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA; OMIM 229300), an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative mitochondrial disease, is the most prevalent hereditary ataxia. 29509186 2018
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Disease: Friedreich Ataxia
Friedreich Ataxia
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE What are the structural implications for iron binding by frataxin, the mitochondrial protein whose decreased expression results in Friedreich's ataxia? 20141512 2010