A Novel SACS Variant Identified in a Chinese Patient: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mutations in the SACS gene have been linked to autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix Saguenay (ARSACS). It is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease characterized by slow progressive ataxia, spasticity, sensorimotor neuropathy, and a combination of other manifestations, such as lack of spasticity, hearing loss, and epileptic seizures. Currently, there have been very few case reports regarding the SACS gene mutation in Chinese patients. Here, we describe a 35-year-old Chinese patient carrying a novel variant in SACS (c.11486C>T) presenting with progressive ataxia and demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. We then reviewed 22 Chinese cases carrying SACS gene mutations, including our patient. All of them had a cerebellar ataxia gait and showed cerebellar atrophy on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A total of 28 SACS mutations were identified in these patients. Our study further expands the mutation spectrum of the SACS gene and contributes to the evaluation of genotype-phenotype correlations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".