This report describes two families with type 1 Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX), or hereditary motor sensory neuropathy type 1. Pedigree analysis is consistent with Xlinked recessive inheritance in one family and X-linked dominant inheritance in the second. In the first family, a mutation in the c
Variability of charcot-marie-tooth disease
β Scribed by Walter G. Bradley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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