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Alanyl-tRNA synthetase mutation in a family with dominant distal hereditary motor neuropathy.
Neurology - 22 May 2012
Zhao Z, Hashiguchi A, Hu J, Sakiyama Y, Okamoto Y, Tokunaga S, Zhu L, Shen H, Takashima H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To identify a new genetic cause of distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN), which is also known as a variant of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), in a Chinese family. METHODS: We investigated a Chinese family with dHMN clinically, electrophysiologically, and genetically. We screened for the mutations of 28 CMT or related pathogenic genes using an originally designed microarray resequencing DNA chip....
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