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Axonal phenotype of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease associated with a mutation in the myelin protein zero gene.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Jun 1999
Chapon F, Latour P, Diraison P, Schaeffer S, Vandenberghe A
Abstract excerpt
A French family had Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 (CMT2) which was characterised by late onset of peripheral neuropathy involvement, Argyll Robertson-like pupils, dysphagia, and deafness. Electrophysiological studies and nerve biopsy defined the neuropathy as axonal type. Genetic analysis of myelin protein zero (MPZ) found a mutation in codon 124 resulting in substitution of threonine by methionine. One of...
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