Genetics of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease within the frame of the human genome project success

Genes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-32

  Timmerman, Vincent ^a,b   Strickland, Alleene V ^c   Züchner, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcot marie tooth; Gene discoveries; Genomic disorders; Next generation sequencing; Peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; WHOLE EXOME SEQUENCING; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84893146010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes5010013     Document Type: Review

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