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Brain, Vol. 121, No. 8, 1451-1458, August 1, 1998
© 1998 Oxford University Press

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. Phenotypic differences between patients with the common deletion and a PMP22 frame shift mutation

Abstract

In six families with hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP) the 17p11.2 deletion was absent, but single strand conformation-analysis and subsequent sequencing demonstrated a heterozygous G-insertion in a stretch of six Gs at nt 276281 of the PMP22 gene, resulting in a frame shift after Gly94. Haplotype comparison of the six families revealed common ancestry. We compared the phenotype of 23 patients from these six families with the phenotype of 63 patients of 17 families with the common deletion. The patients with the G-insertion showed the clinical, electrophysiological and morphological characteristics of common HNPP, but in addition they had significantly more neuropathic features, mimicking hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I (HMSN I) or Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1 (CMT1). To explain this distinct phenotype we suggest that, by translation of the mutated gene, a markedly changed polypeptide is formed without the normal cytoplasmic C-terminal of the native protein, resulting in a loss of function similar to that with the common deletion, but exerting an extra disturbance of Schwann cell functions, probably by hampering normal myelin formation or maintenance.


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