Late onset axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth phenotype caused by a novel myelin protein zero mutation

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 534-537

  Bienfait, H M E ^a   Faber, C G ^c   Baas, F ^a   Gabreels Festen A A W M ^e   Koelman, J H T M ^a   Hoogendijk, J E ^b   Verschuuren, J J ^d   Wokke, J H J ^b   De Visser, M ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MPZ GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYELINATION; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AXONS; BIOPSY; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONNEXINS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN P0 PROTEIN; MYELIN PROTEINS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SURAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 33645574224     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2005.073437     Document Type: Article

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