Canavan Disease 2012

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Summary

The Canavan Disease is a rare genetic, degenerate disorder of the brain. It is always fatal, with patients dying in between the first decades of their life.

It is named after Myrtelle Canavan, who described the Disease for the first time in 1931. (http://www.morbus-canavan.com/canavansdisease.htm)

Canavan Disease appears most often in ethnic groups of eastern and central European Jewish descent. Out of these Jewish communities, the Ashkenazi Jews form the largest community. Today they account for approximately uo to 80 percent of Jews worldwide. 2% of the Ashkenazi are carriers of Canavan disease, which means that 1 out of 40 persons carriers a mutated allele.

Up to now, there is no final cure for Canavan Disease and treatment mainly focuses on managing the symptoms.

Phenotype

Typical and always

  • macrocephaly (abnormally large head)
  • limited motoric abilities that decrease as the disease progresses. These include:
    • not being able to crawl, sit, walk, or talk
    • weak neck muscles that cause poor head control
    • hypotonia in general
  • mental retardation

Not always but can occur as the disease progresses:

  • seizures
  • hypotonia leading to paralysis
  • blindness
  • deafness

Phenotypic description of the disease.

(Describe this in your own words, avoid plagiarism. Summarise the information from different sources.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1234/ http://www.canavanfoundation.org/canavan.php

Classification and Types

Canavan Disease belongs to a group of disorders called Leukodystrophies. Leukodystrophies are metabolic disorders that are characterized by dysfunction of the white brain matter.

Heredity

geno


Biochemical disease mechanism

The example protein is involved in the example pathway...

Ideally, include a graphical pathway representation like this one:

Sphingolipid Metabolism (source: KEGG) highlighting disease associated enzymes

(see above: own words, no plagiarism)


Cross-references

  • link to KEGG
  • link to MetaCyc

... see databases in "resources"

Mutations

Current knowledge about mutations associated with the disease. - Separate into disease causing and neutral mutations. -- These sequence pages will be the starting point for collecting prediction results and result discussions.

Note: Until further notice you only need to care about the reference sequence pages. -- At a later stage we will assign mutations we expect you to work on. Then, it will make sense to create on page per mutation that is assigned to you.

Reference sequence

Which sequence does not cause the disease and is most often found in the population.

Neutral mutations

Disease causing mutations

Diagnosis

  • prenatal: NAA, mut ana
  • postnatal: NAA, neuroimg, mut ana