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SMN gene analysis of the spinal form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 1997
Hanash A, Leguern E, Birouk N, Clermont O, Pouget J, Bouche P, Munnich A, Brice A, Melki J
Abstract excerpt
The spinal form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (spinal CMT) is a rare genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system, the genetic basis of which remains unknown. To test the hypothesis that a defect of survival motor neuron (SMN), the determining gene for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), would result in spinal CMT, 18 unrelated spinal CMT patients were studied. Nine of them were sporadic cases and the other nine...
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