EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 3:  GENETIC AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS

SITI AMINAH SOBANA

EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 3: GENETIC AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS

dc.contributor.advisor	Yunia Sribudiani
dc.contributor.advisor	Tri Hanggono Achmad
dc.contributor.author	SITI AMINAH SOBANA
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-20T02:23:08Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-20T02:23:08Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05-19
dc.description.abstract	This study aims to explore the phenotype and genotype aspects of a family with SCA3. This book contains eight chapters. Chapter 1 presents the background on SCA3 that the research addresses and the pathomechanism and any issues related to SCA3 disease investigated in this study. In Chapter 2, three index patients with SCA3 from different families are evaluated. The patients had the same polyQ stretch length, yet the clinical profiles, progression of symptoms, and worsening of their condition over time were considerably different. These symptoms included ataxia, speech problems, peripheral motor and sensory nerve complaint, and cognitive impairment. Patients therefore presented with a wide variety of symptoms and clinical features when SCA3 first manifested. Chapter 3 describes the clinical profile of five subjects from the same family with an ATXN3 mutation with expanded CAG repeat showing a broad range of manifestations. All patients with SCA3 had prominent non-ataxia features besides ataxia signs. Subjects with the prodromal stage showed a less severe disease with only nystagmus, the symptom of peripheral nerve abnormalities, and mild cognitive impairment (CI). Subjects with the ataxic stage of SCA3 had more extensive neurological manifestations, including the cerebellar, extrapyramidal, pyramidal, oculomotor, peripheral nerve symptoms, and mild CI. The non-motor symptoms of SCA3 include peripheral nerve symptoms and cognitive impairment. In Chapter 4, four subjects from the same family tree are examined with abnormalities in the peripheral nerve, presenting with symptoms but with or without clinical signs. Peripheral nerve abnormalities already shown in the prodromal stage are also discussed. Nerve Conduction Study (NCS) analysis showed a varied peripheral nerve involvement, including the axonal and demyelinating lesion in sensory, motor, and motor nerves. Chapter 5 reports the peripheral neuropathy of one patient with SCA3 who experienced peripheral nerve symptoms preceding gait symptoms. However, the sensory examination was normal, even when the NCS revealed axonal demyelinating sensory-motor peripheral neuropathy. Chapter 6 discusses cognitive impairment consisting of general and cerebellar cognitive function of patients with SCA3. Fifteen subjects from the same family tree had their MMSE and MoCA-INA scores examined. The results show that the general cognitive function in SCA3 subjects tended to be lower than that of normal subjects. Then, seven subjects underwent further CCAS examination and showed impairment in executive function (cognitive flexibility), attention (short-term memory), language (verbal fluency), and memory (immediate memory). In the subjects with SCA3, the cognitive function was more likely affected by the pathological disease process rather than age and education level. The involvement of the brain region that resulted in the abnormality of the motor and cognitive function was shown in the brain MRI volumetry findings. In Chapter 7, seven subjects who underwent an MRI examination are discussed. This research found a decrease in corpus callosum volume and cerebellum lobules I-II as well as lobule IX, which control motor function and cognition, respectively.
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.unpad.ac.id/handle/kandaga/130130190023
dc.subject	Spinocerebellar
dc.subject	Ataxia
dc.subject	Type 3
dc.title	EXPLORATIVE STUDY OF SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA 3: GENETIC AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS