Objective: To investigate the Cx32 mutation features and the clinical manifestations of Chinese patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease(CMT). Methods: Twenty-four of 65 unrelated CMT patients were selected for Cx32 mutation screening after the exclusion of the CMT1A 1.5 Mb duplication and male-to-male transmission. The motor and sensory nerve conduction studies were performed in all probands and most of their affected family members to establish the clinical CMT1 ,CMT2 or CMT intermediate diagnosis. The presence of mutations in the coding region of Cx32 was detected by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis combined with direct sequencing. Results: We found 7 different point mutations in the coding region of Cx32 in a total of 7 families. All the patients were mildly to moderately affected with a clinical CMT1 or CMT intermediate diagnosis. The mutation Arg15Gln was inherited with X-linked recessive trait in family 1 involved in our study. The Arg75Trp mutation was detected in a family with X-li

作者：张如旭；罗巍；资晓宏；夏昆；蔡芳；萧剑峰；赵国华；张付峰；沈潞；江泓；唐北沙

来源：北京大学学报（医学版） 2005 年 37卷 1期