Biallelic mutation of HSD17B4 induces middle age-onset spinocerebellar ataxia.

This is the report of middle age-onset DBP deficiency. Residual functional DBP caused relatively mild symptoms in the affected patients, i.e., slowly progressive ataxia and hearing loss. This study broadens the scope of DBP deficiency phenotypes and indicates that CADD scores may be used to estimate the severity of DBP deficiencies.