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Severe phenotype with cis-acting heterozygous PMP22 mutations.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2009
Niedrist D, Joncourt F, Mátyás G, Müller A
Abstract excerpt
We report on a 20-year-old male with severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease and a de novo deletion (c.281delG, p.G94AfsX17) on the paternal PMP22 allele harboring c.353C>T (p.T118M). RNA-based sequence analysis confirmed the absence of nonsense-mediated decay and the presence of the mutant transcripts in Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cells of our patient. His clinical findings included early...
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