HINT1 neuropathy in Lithuania: clinical, genetic, and functional profiling.

Background: Recessive loss-of-function variations in HINT1 cause a peculiar subtype of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: neuromyotonia and axonal neuropathy (NMAN; OMIM[#137200]). With 25 causal variants identified worldwide, HINT1 mutations are among the most common causes of recessive neuropathy. The majority of patients are compound heterozygous or homozygous for a Slavic founder variant (c.