Serena Grossi, Stefano Regis, Roberta Biancheri, Matthew Mort, Susanna Lualdi, Enrico Bertini, Graziella Uziel, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Alessandro Simonati, Fabio Corsolini, Ercan Demir, Valentina Marchiani, Antonio Percesepe, Franco Stanzial, Andrea Rossi, Catherine Vaurs-Barrière, David N Cooper, Mirella Filocamo
BACKGROUND: The breadth of the clinical spectrum underlying Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and spastic paraplegia type 2 is due to the extensive allelic heterogeneity in the X-linked PLP1 gene encoding myelin proteolipid protein (PLP). PLP1 mutations range from gene duplications of variable size found in 60-70% of patients to intragenic lesions present in 15-20% of patients. METHODS: Forty-eight male patients from 38 unrelated families with a PLP1-related disorder were studied...
June 16, 2011: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases