title: [Hereditary optic atrophies].
abstract: Congenital or infantile autosomal recessive optic atrophy is rare. The autosomal recessive syndrome of optic atrophy associated with diabetes is less rare. Dominant juvenile optic atrophy occurs frequently. Behr's heredo-familial optic atrophy, with its neurological mainfestations and its recessive autosomal inheritance, is rare. Sex-linked optic atrophy is exceptional. Leber's optic neuritis occurs frequently. Its heredity is apparently sex-linked, but no classical mode of transmission can be applied. Cytoplasmic heredity is the most probable.
mesh_terms: D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000150:complications; D005111:Extrachromosomal Inheritance; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D009902:Optic Neuritis / Q000235:genetics; D010375:Pedigree; D012730:Sex Chromosomes
vernacular_title: Les atrophies optiques héréditaires