A new variant of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2 is probably the result of a mutation in the neurofilament-light gene

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-46

  Mersiyanova, Irina V ^a   Perepelov, Alexander V ^d   Polyakov, Alexander V ^a   Sitnikov, Vladimir F ^b   Dadali, Elena L ^a   Oparin, Roman B ^c   Petrin, Alexander N ^a   Evgrafov, Oleg V ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PIROGOV RUSSIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Res Ctr for Dermatol/Venerology   (Russian Federation)

^d OGAREV MORDOVIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033911099     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302962     Document Type: Article

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