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A new de novo mutation of the connexin-32 gene in a patient with X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 disease.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Apr 2000
Di Iorio G, Cappa V, Ciccodicola A, Sampaolo S, Ammendola A, Sanges G, Giugliano R, D'Urso M
Abstract excerpt
We report a 26-year-old Italian man with X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease type 1 (CMT-X1) and a negative family history for neuromuscular diseases. Clinical and electrophysiological examinations of the patient's mother and siblings were normal. Molecular analysis by polymerase chain reaction--single-strand conformation polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) on genomic DNA from the patient and all members of his family...
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