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A point mutation at the X-chromosomal proteolipid protein locus in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease leads to disruption of myelinogenesis.
Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler - 1 Dec 1990
Weimbs T, Dick T, Stoffel W, Boltshauser E
Abstract excerpt
A group of inherited neurological disorders are the X-chromosome linked dysmyelinoses, in which myelin membranes of the CNS are missing or perturbed due to a strongly reduced number of differentiated oligodendrocytes. In animal dysmyelinoses (jimpy mouse, msd-mouse, md rat, shaking pup) mutations of the main integral myelin membrane protein, proteolipid protein, have been identified. Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease...
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