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Correlation Between the Histopathologic, Genotypic, and Phenotypic Features of Hereditary Peripheral Neuropathies in Childhood

University of Sydney and the Department of Neurology, The New Children's Hospital, Westmead, Australia

In recent years, there have been remarkable advances in the understanding of the molecular genetic basis of the hereditary polyneuropathies. Linkage of the genes for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease to chromosomes 1 and then 17 was followed by the discovery that the commonest form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A) was due to a duplication of DNA at 17p11.2-12. This duplication was shown to contain the gene for peripheral myelin protein PMP22. The finding that mutations of the myelin protein PMP22 gene were present in some Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease cases lacking the duplication confirmed the myelin protein PMP22 gene as the site of the defect in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Similarly, defects of the myelin protein Po gene on chromosome 1 have been demonstrated in a rarer form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1B). A deletion of DNA at 17p11.2-12 results in the disorder hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. Other mutations of the myelin protein PMP22 and myelin protein Po genes have been associated with the clinical syndrome known as Dejerine-Sottas disease. An X-linked form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX) has been characterized and shown to be due to mutations of the gap junction protein, connexin 32. Transgenic murine models with inactivated myelin protein PMP22 and myelin protein Po genes have shown pathologic changes strikingly similar to those seen in human patients with disturbances of those genes. In this paper, the clinical and histopathologic characteristics of these conditions are discussed in relation to the genotypic basis. It will be argued that there is still an important place for the clinician and nerve pathologist in a medical world immersed in the wonders of molecular genetics. (J Child Neurol 1996; 11:133-146).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 133-146 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/088307389601100214


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