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Drosophila as a platform to predict the pathogenicity of novel aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase mutations in CMT.
Amino acids - 1 May 2012
Leitão-Gonçalves Ricardo, Ermanoska Biljana, Jacobs An, De Vriendt Els, Timmerman Vincent, Lupski James R, Callaerts Patrick, Jordanova Albena
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is the major form of inherited peripheral neuropathy in humans. CMT is clinically and genetically heterogeneous and four aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases have been implicated in disease etiology. Mutations in the YARS gene encoding a tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) lead to Dominant Intermediate CMT type C (DI-CMTC). Three dominant YARS mutations were so far associated with DI-CMTC. To...
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