ATXN2 and spinocerebellar ataxia type 2: The cerebellar tissue of a Central European SCA2 patient (female, age at death—26 years, ATXN2 CAG-repeat genotype 52/22) who was characterized in various neuropathological studies [52,55,56,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88] versus two age/sex-matched controls obtained from BrainNet-Europe (death at 21 years from primary lung fibrosis; death at 23 years from colitis ulcerosa) underwent lipid extraction, thin layer chromatography, and densitometric quantification of the stained bands.