Dominantly Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies
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Inherited peripheral neuropathies.
Mutations in genes expressed in Schwann cells and the axons they ensheathe cause the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies, also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT). More than 40 different genes have been shown to cause inherited neuropathies; chromosomal localizations of many other distinct inherited neuropathies have been mapped, and new genetic causes for inherited neuropathies co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-3069,1554-6578
DOI: 10.1093/jnen/62.7.699