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[Research progress in the mouse models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 (CMT2)].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Jan 2014
Yu Zhen, Luan Chunjie, Gu Mingmin
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a kind of common hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies with a global prevalence of about 1 in 2500. Clinically, CMT can be divided into two main types: a demyelinating type (CMT1, CMT3, CMT4 and CMTX1) and an axonal type (CMT2). Up to now, about 17 unique genes related to CMT2 have been mapped and cloned. However, the pathogenesis of these disease-causing genes is still...
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