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TRPV4 mutations and cytotoxic hypercalcemia in axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathies.
Neurology - 8 Mar 2011
Klein C J, Shi Y, Fecto F, Donaghy M, Nicholson G, McEntagart M E, Crosby A H, Wu Y, Lou H, McEvoy K M, Siddique T, Deng H-X, Dyck P J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To improve understanding of TRPV4-associated axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathy phenotypes and their debated pathologic mechanism. METHODS: A total of 17 CMT2C phenotypic families with vocal cord and diaphragmatic involvement and 36 clinically undifferentiated CMT2 subjects underwent sequencing analysis of the coding region of TRPV4. Functional studies of mutant proteins were performed using...
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