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• 07 / 19 / 2008

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Specialists from Spain, Germany, Portugal, the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries, will participate in the meeting to discuss aspects related to therapies for the treatment of this disease.

Speaking to ACN, Dr. Luis Velásquez, Director of the Center for the Research and Rehabilitation from Hereditary Ataxias in Holguin, said that this disease affects 10 to 15% of the world population.

Among the countries with the highest rates are Mexico, India, Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States.

Velasquez said that the etiology of ataxias is still unknown but he said that there is a genetic damage or mutation in a group of this kind of disease. This transformation, he noted, produces an abnormal protein that causes the death of a group of structures of the nervous system.

(Adelante.cu)