A 1.5-Mb Cosmid Contig of the CMT1A Duplication/HNPP Deletion Critical Region in 17p11.2–p12
✍ Scribed by Tatsufumi Murakami; James R. Lupski
- Book ID
- 115613207
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-7543
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) is a common autosomal dominant demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. Most patients with CMT1A have been found to have a 1.5 megabase tandem DNA duplication in chromosome 17p11.2-12. Meiotic unequal crossover mediated by the CMT1A-REP repeat is a proposed me