spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

Findings

No curated finding names spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.

Definition

Inheritance

Autosomal dominant inheritance

Onset and course

Late onset · Young adult onset

HPO, annotations 2026-09-02

What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.

Germline variants in the gene encoding each protein, as classified by GenCC submitters, each in their own words. Limited, disputed and refuted submissions are listed too.

Where it sits

A kind of

• autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type I
• Huntington disease-like syndrome

Narrower terms (1)

• spinocerebellar degeneration with slow eye movements

Resolves to: spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

Also called

ATXN2 autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type Iautosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia type I caused by mutation in ATXN2OPCA2SCA2