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Severe phenotypes in a Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A patient with PMP22 triplication.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2015
Kim Sung Min, Lee Jinho, Yoon Bo Ram, Kim Ye Jin, Choi Byung-Ok, Chung Ki Wha
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy signified by a distal symmetric polyneuropathy. The most frequent subtype is type 1A (CMT1A) caused by duplication in chromosome 17p12 that includes PMP22. This study reports a woman with a family history of CMT1A due to PMP22 duplication. However, she presented with a more severe phenotype than...
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