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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: molecular characterization of patients from central and southern Italy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 1995
Guzzetta V, Santoro L, Gasparo-Rippa P, Ragno M, Vita G, Caruso G, Andria G
Abstract excerpt
The syndrome of peroneal muscular atrophy, or Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), disease represents the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy, with a prevalence of about 1 per 2500. The disease is usually transmitted in an autosomal dominant fashion, although it can display all the mendelian patterns of inheritance. The chromosome 17-linked form (CMT1a) appears to be the most common form of the disease in all the...
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