Evidence for a recessive PMP22 point mutation in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1A
✍ Scribed by Roa, Benjamin B.; Garcia, Carlos A.; Pentao, Liu; Killian, James M.; Trask, Barbara J.; Suter, Ueli; Snipes, G. Jackson; Ortiz-Lopez, Rocio; Shooter, Eric M.; Patel, Pragna I.
- Book ID
- 109918224
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 825 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1061-4036
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) or hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type Ia (HMSN type Ia) is an autosomal dominant demyelinating polyneuropathy, which may result from duplications as large as 1.5 Mb on chromosome 17p 11.2-p12 encompassing the gene for the peripheral myelin protei
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder of the peripheral nervous system. CMT type 1 is most frequently caused by a 1.4 Mb tandem duplication in chromosome 17p11.2 comprising the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) gene. Furthermore sequence variatio