Talk:Friedreich's ataxia/Archive 1

Quebec study
Under Prevalence, I added a note regarding the tracing of several cases back to a pair of 1634 immigrants. I understood that this disease may be more prevalent in Quebec, however I am a layman and invite your comments. Perhaps this is more appropriate under Genetics to demonstrate the inherited nature of the disease:

Quote: "Due to the relatively heterogenous population of Quebec, a 1984 Canadian study was able to trace 40 cases of classical Friedreich's disease from 14 previously unrelated French-Canadian kindreds to one common ancestral couple arriving in New France in 1634: Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin."

Canuckle 20:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe you mean homogeneous population - the fact that a large proportion of the population in Quebec is descended from a relatively small colonial-era founder population.

BloodDoc 18:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

median age of death
this edit was the only edit by 59.94.98.13 and no source was cited. I'd suggest replacing the information provided by "59.94.98.13" with information from this source and the articles it cites. --JWSchmidt (talk) 20:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Rewording under 'Treatment?'
"The symptoms can be treated but there is no treatment for Friedrich's ataxia at this time." Shouldn't the second 'treatment' be changed to 'cure' ? It'd change to: "The symptoms can be treated but there is no CURE for Friedrich's ataxia at this time." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barronnevermore (talk • contribs) 17:47, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Review
http://www.nature.com/nrneurol/journal/v5/n4/pdf/nrneurol.2009.26.pdf - this was dumped in the article as a "review by experts" but no conclusions mentioned. Moved here for future reference. JFW | T@lk  07:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The full reference is:
 * These sources would also be useful for expansion:
 * (Free)
 * An entire supplement in J Neurol (March 2009): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Journal+of+neurology%22[Jour]+AND+256+Suppl+1[volume]+AND+2009[pdat]&cmd=detailssearch (Pubmed listing).
 * Hope this helps. JFW | T@lk  11:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hope this helps. JFW | T@lk  11:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)