Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy presenting with hand drop in a young child.

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) results from the deletion of the PMP22 gene in chromosome 17p11.2. Clinically, it presents with painless pressure palsies, typically in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life, being a rare entity in childhood.

[Spinal muscular atrophy: descriptive analysis of a case series].

Introduction: Spinal Muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetically determined specific neuromuscular disease, characterized by the deterioration of spinal a motor neurons, causing progressive muscular atrophy and weakening. It is genetically determined, with the absence or mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) as a hallmark. A similar copy of the SMN1, named SMN2, modulates the severity of the disease.

Phenotypical spectrum of DOK7 mutations in congenital myasthenic syndromes.

Dok ('downstream-of-kinase') family of cytoplasmic proteins play a role in signalling downstream of receptor and non-receptor phosphotyrosine kinases. Recently, a skeletal muscle receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK)-interacting cytoplasmic protein termed Dok-7 has been identified. Subsequently, we and others identified mutations in DOK7 as a cause of congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS), providing evidence for a crucial role of Dok-7 in maintaining synaptic structure.