GENETIC MSA-MIMICKING DISEASES
SUBTYPES & OTHER DISORDERS

Ataxias
  • Spinocerebellar Ataxias (Genetic Forms)
  • Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)
  • fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS)
  • Friedreich Ataxia (FRDA)
  • Ataxia-oculomotor apraxia syndrome (AOA)
  • Ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (AVED)
  • Marinesco Sjogren syndrome (SIL1 mutation)
  • Alexanders syndrome
Parkinsonism
  • Perry syndrome
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Familial Parkinson’s Disease with the SNCA gene (FPD)
  • Familial Parkinson’s Disease with the LRRK2 gene (FPD)
  • Familial Parkinson’s Disease with the GBA gene (FPD)
  • X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ABCD1 mutation)
Spastic Gait
  • Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)
  • Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Paraplegin (SPG7)
  • Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Mental Impairment and Thin Corpus Callosum (SPG11)
  • Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
Autonomic Failure
  • LMNB1 associated Leukodystrophy
Complex Phenotypes
  • Mitochondriopathy
  • Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
  • Prion disease
  • C9ORF72 mutation
Other Disorders

Non-Acquired:

  • Dementia with Lewy Bodies
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Pure autonomic failure (however there are some ideas that this entity is a spectrum)
  • Corticobasal degeneration
  • Chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids (CLIPPERS)
  • Vascular parkinsonism
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Prion disorder (genetic or sporadic)

Acquired:

  • Whipple’s disease
  • Extrapontine myelinolysis
  • Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
  • Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration
  • Drug-induced cerebellar degeneration
  • Gluten Ataxi

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Alphabetical List of Rare Diseases National Organization of Rare Diseases (NORD)

Prepared By:
Dr. Oybek E. Turgunkhujaev (Defeat MSA Consulting Neurologist – Movement Disorders)
117628, Moscow, Starobittsevskaya St 23, building 2