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Molecular diagnosis and clinical onset of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in Japan.
Journal of human genetics - 1 May 2011
Abe Akiko, Numakura Chikahiko, Kijima Kazuki, Hayashi Makiko, Hashimoto Taeko, Hayasaka Kiyoshi
Abstract excerpt
To study the genetic background of Japanese Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) patients, we analyzed qualitative and quantitative changes in the disease-causing genes mainly by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography and multiplex ligation-dependent probe analysis in 227 patients with demyelinating CMT and 127 patients with axonal CMT. In demyelinating CMT, we identified 53 patients with PMP22...
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