Description : Autosomal recessive spinocerebellar ataxia-13 is an autosomal recessive neurologic
disorder characterized by delayed psychomotor development beginning in infancy. Affected
individuals show mild to profound mental retardation with poor or absent speech as
well as gait and stance ataxia and hyperreflexia. Most individuals also have eye movement
abnormalities. Brain MRI shows cerebellar atrophy and ventriculomegaly (summary by
Guergueltcheva et al., 2012).;
Inheritance : Autosomal recessive;
Molecular basis : Caused by mutation in the metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 gene (GRM1, 604473.0001);