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Rapid Identification of Pathogenic Variants in Two Cases of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease by Gene-Panel Sequencing.
International journal of molecular sciences - 5 Apr 2017
Ho Chi-Chun, Tai Shuk-Mui, Lee Edmond Chi-Nam, Mak Timothy Shin-Heng, Liu Timothy Kam-Tim, Tang Victor Wai-Lun, Poon Wing-Tat
Abstract excerpt
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is a common inherited peripheral neuropathy affecting up to 1 in 1214 of the general population with more than 60 nuclear genes implicated in its pathogenesis. Traditional molecular diagnostic pathways based on relative prevalence and clinical phenotyping are limited by long turnaround time, population-specific prevalence of causative variants and inability to assess multiple...
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