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Mutational analysis and genotype/phenotype correlation in Turkish Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 and HNPP patients.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 2000
Bissar-Tadmouri N, Parman Y, Boutrand L, Deymeer F, Serdaroglu P, Vandenberghe A, Battaloglu E
Abstract excerpt
The major Charcot- Marie-Tooth Type 1 (CMT1) locus, CMT1A, and Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) cosegregate with a 1.5-Mb duplication and a 1.5-Mb deletion, respectively, in band 17p11.2. Point mutations in peripheral myelin gene 22 (PMP22), myelin protein zero (MPZ), and connexin 32 (Cx32) have been reported in CMT1, and in PMP22 in HNPP patients without deletion. We have screened...
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