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ArticleTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2026

Progressive Axonal Neuropathy and Cerebellar Ataxia Associated with Homozygous Pathogenic

Caroline Fernandes Melo, Laura Toledo de Vasconcelos, Lays Aparecida Bono Evangelista

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Article in Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Caroline Fernandes MeloHospital Felício Rocho, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. CRM-MG 59750 | RQE 39684/55023.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8096-3081
Laura Toledo de VasconcelosDivision of Medical Semiology and Neurology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1143-2259
Lays Aparecida Bono EvangelistaMSc in Neurology, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto (USP-RP), Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1528-4646

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Abstract

We report a 41-year-old man of African descent from the Northern Minas Gerais/Jequitinhonha Valley region of Brazil - historically characterized by geographic isolation, predominantly Afro-Indigenous ancestry, and structural consanguinity - born to first-degree cousin parents, who presented with progressive axonal sensorimotor neuropathy, cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria, and oculomotor abnormalities. His sister had died with a similar untreated neurological syndrome. Three serial electroneuromyographic studies demonstrated stable chronic axonal polyneuropathy with complete bilateral absence of sural, fibular, and plantar sensory potentials, and active distal denervation. Brain MRI, unchanged over a two-year interval, showed T2/FLAIR hyperintense foci in both cerebellar hemispheres and the right middle cerebellar peduncle with cerebellar atrophy, without diffusion restriction or contrast enhancement. Next-generation sequencing (NGS; Mendelics®; 101-gene hereditary neuropathy panel) identified a homozygous pathogenic variant in the

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Cerebellar AtaxiaDNA Polymerase gammaPolyneuropathiesAdultBlack PeopleBrazilHomozygoteHumansMaleMutationDNA Polymerase gammaPOLG protein, humanaxonal neuropathyBrazilcerebellar ataxiaconsanguinityhealth disparitiesmitochondrial diseasePOLG

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