Periaxin mutations cause recessive Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy
Periaxin mutations cause recessive Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy
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DOI:
10.1086/318208
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发表时间:
2001-02-01
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Lupski, JR
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作者:
Boerkoel, CF;Takashima, H;Lupski, JR
The periaxin gene (PRX) encodes two PDZ-domain proteins, L- and S-periaxin, that are required for maintenance of peripheral nerve myelin. Prx(-/-) mice develop a severe demyelinating peripheral neuropathy, despite apparently normal initial formation of myelin sheaths. We hypothesized that mutations in PRX could cause human peripheral myelinopathies. In accordance with this, we identified three unrelated Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy patients with recessive PRX mutations-two with compound heterozygous nonsense and frameshift mutations, and one with a homozygous frameshift mutation. We mapped PRX to 19q13.13-13.2, a region recently associated with a severe autosomal recessive demyelinating neuropathy in a Lebanese family (Delague et al. 2000) and syntenic to the location of Prx on murine chromosome 7 (Gillespie et al. 1997).