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[Heterogeneity in breakpoint location of duplication in Japanese Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A].
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology - 1 Jan 1997
Yamamoto M, Yasuda T, Yamamoto K, Mitsuma T, Sobue G
Abstract excerpt
The crossover breakpoints for CMT1A are located in the CMT1A-REP repeat flanking a 1.5 Mb region of chromosome 17p11.2-12. We analysed the relationship between the breakpoint locations and clinical phenotypes in 21 Japanese patients with CMT1A duplication. The CMT1A-REP region was divided in 5 regions, A, B, C, D and E, based on restriction site differences between the proximal and distal CMT1A-REP repeats...
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