Article
[The diagnosis and prevalence of locus CMT1A duplication in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1].
Medicina clinica - 6 May 1995
Bort S, Sevilla T, Vílchez J J, Prieto F, Palau F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease or hereditary motor-sensitive neuropathy (HMSN) is the most frequent hereditary neuropathy. The demyelinated or type 1 form (CMT1) is the most frequently presented, commonly being of a dominant autosomic inheritance. CMT1 is heterogeneous genetically and the subjacent mutation found in most of the cases is a duplication of 1,500 kb in the CMT1A locus of chromosome...
Topics
- Alleles
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Probes
- Multigene Family
