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Dominant Intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder is not due to a catalytic defect in tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase.
Biochemistry - 23 Aug 2011
Froelich Clifford A, First Eric A
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder (CMT) is the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy, afflicting 1 in every 2500 Americans. One form of this disease, Dominant Intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder type C (DI-CMTC), is due to mutation of the gene encoding the cytoplasmic tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS). Three different TyrRS variants have been found to give rise to DI-CMTC: replacing glycine at position 41 by...
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