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Title
Rapid screening of myelin genes in CMT1 patients by SSCP analysis: identification of new mutations and polymorphisms in the gene
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Abstract
Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1 (CMT1) disease or hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I (HMSNI) is an autosomal dominant peripheral neuropathy. In most CMT1 families, the disease cosegregates with a 1.5-Mb duplication on chromosome 17p11.2 (CMT1A). A few patients have been found with mutations in the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP-22) gene located in the CMT1A region. In other families mutations have been identified in the major peripheral myelin protein P-0 gene localized on chromosome 1q21-q23 (CMT1B). We performed a rapid mutation screening of the PMP-22 and P-0 genes in non-duplicated CMT1 patients by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis followed by direct polymerase chain reaction sequencing of ge nomic DNA. Six new single base changes in the P-0 gene were observed: two missense mutations in, respectively, exons 2 and 3, two nonsense mutations in exon 4, and two silent mutations or polymorphisms in, respectively, exons 3 and 6.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Human genetics. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 1994
ISSN
0340-6717 [print]
1432-1203 [online]
DOI
10.1007/BF00206959
Volume/pages
94 :6 (1994) , p. 653-657
ISI
A1994PT73200010
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UAntwerpen
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