[Mutations in the mitofusin 2 gene are the most common cause of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2 disease].

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In contrast to Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 disease (CMT1), which is most commonly caused by 17p11.2-p12 duplication (in 70% of CMT1 cases), the axonal form of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (CMT2) seemed to be a genetically heterogeneous disease group, with no single gene playing a major pathogenetic role. In 2004, 10 mutations were identified in CMT2A families in the MFN2 gene coding for the...

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