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Screening of dominantly inherited Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathies.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Nov 1993
Ionasescu V V, Ionasescu R, Searby C
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-three families with dominantly inherited Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) neuropathies including 730 subjects (total) from which 356 affected were studied clinically, electrophysiologically (MNCVs and EMGs), by genetic linkage, and screened for DNA duplication. Thirty-eight families (60.3%) were type 1A (demyelinating CMT mapped on chromosome 17). DNA duplication was present in 36 families (94.8% of CMT1A...
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