| Literature DB >> 23729695 |
Michael Gonzalez1, Heather McLaughlin, Henry Houlden, Min Guo, Liu Yo-Tsen, Marios Hadjivassilious, Fiorella Speziani, Xiang-Lei Yang, Anthony Antonellis, Mary M Reilly, Stephan Züchner.
Abstract
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease is a genetically heterogeneous condition with >50 genes now being identified. Thanks to new technological developments, namely, exome sequencing, the ability to identify additional rare genes in CMT has been drastically improved. Here we present data suggesting that MARS is a very rare novel cause of late-onset CMT2. This is supported by strong functional and evolutionary evidence, yet the absence of additional unrelated cases warrant future studies to substantiate this conclusion.Entities:
Keywords: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; Exome sequencing; tRNA synthases
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23729695 PMCID: PMC3796032 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2013-305049
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry ISSN: 0022-3050 Impact factor: 10.154