Novel peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) micromutations associated with variable phenotypes in Greek patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Koutsis, Georgios ^a,b   Pandraud, Amelie ^a   Polke, James M ^c   Wood, Nicholas W ^a,c   Panas, Marios ^b   Karadima, Georgia ^b   Houlden, Henry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERIPHERAL MYELIN PROTEIN 22;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GREECE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MICROMUTATION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84864688994     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws034     Document Type: Letter

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