Clinical features and molecular genetics of hereditary peripheral neuropathies.

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Hereditary peripheral neuropathies are the most common monogenetically inherited diseases of the nervous system. The prevalence of the Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy Type 1A (HMSN 1A or Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy 1A, CMT1A) alone is estimated to be as high as 1/5000. In 1991, a duplication on chromosome 17p11.2 was identified as the causative genetic defect of CMT1A. Since then causative mutations in...

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