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PMP22 Thr118Met is not a clinically relevant CMT1 marker.
Journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2000
Young P, Stögbauer F, Eller B, de Jonghe P, Löfgren A, Timmerman V, Rautenstrauss B, Oexle K, Grehl H, Kuhlenbäumer G, Van Broeckhoven C, Ringelstein E B, Funke H
Abstract excerpt
It is controversial if peripheral myelin protein 22 gene (PMP22) Thr118Met represents a functionally irrelevant polymorphism or, since hemizygosity for this variant has been found in two patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1 (CMT1 patients), it can act as a recessive CMT1 mutation. To shed further light on this variant and its diagnostic value we searched for carriers in 1018 individuals from the...
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