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5 Facts you should know about
Friedreich ataxia
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The condition is named after German physician Nikolaus Friedreich, who first described it in the 1860s
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Friedreich ataxia, or FRDA, is an autosomal-recessive disorder that affects a gene (FXN) on chromosome 9
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Symptoms generally start between 5 and 20 years of age
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Many patients develop hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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It is the most common inherited ataxia
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