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Polymorphic Short Tandem Repeats for Diagnosis of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A Duplication
1 May 2001
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BACKGROUND: A 1.5-Mb microduplication containing the gene for peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) on chromosome 17p11.2-12 is responsible for 75% of cases of the demyelinating form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A). Methods for molecular diagnosis of CMT1A use Southern blot and/or amplification by PCR of polymorphic poly(AC) repeats (microsatellites) located within the duplicated region, or the detection of...
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