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Clinical and genetic description of a family with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B from a transmembrane MPZ mutation.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jun 2004
Eggers Scott D Z, Keswani Sanjay C, Melli Giorgia, Cornblath David R
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the myelin protein zero gene (MPZ) are associated with certain demyelinating neuropathies, and in particular with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1B (CMT1B), Dejerine-Sottas syndrome, and congenital hypomyelination. MPZ mutations affecting the protein's transmembrane domain are generally associated with more severe phenotypes. We describe a family with mild CMT1B associated with a transmembrane MPZ...
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