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Title
Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy associated with auditory neuropathy in a Gypsy family
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Abstract
In a Slovene Gypsy family of 19 subjects from. four generations three patients with clinical characteristics compatible with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy Lom (HMSNL), were found. They had severe distal and milder proximal muscle atrophy and weakness with areflexia of myotatic jerks. Two had facial weakness at the time when already wheelchair bound All sensory modalities were affected distally in the limbs. Sluggish pupillary responses to light and convergence were found. They had skeletal abnormalities. One patient had polydactily on the hand. Nerve conduction studies were compatible with demyelinative polyneuropathy. Nerve biopsy showed mainly axonal loss without hypertrophic changes. Auditory neuropathy was diagnosed in all of them. None of the patients had duplication of 17p1.2-12 or point mutations in the Protein zero. Peripheral myelin protein and Connexin32 genes. Similar disorder that mapped to 8q25 was previously described in some Bulgarian and Italian Gypsy families. Members of our family may suffer from the same hereditary disease and may carry the same ancestor mutation, which was in the past spread in European Gypsy populations.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Pflügers Archiv. - Heidelberg, 1968, currens
Publication
Heidelberg : Springer , 2000
ISSN
0031-6768 [print]
1432-2013 [online]
DOI
10.1007/S004240000148
Volume/pages
439 :S3 (2000) , p. 208-210
ISI
000084572000075
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