Mutation analysis of PMP22 in Slovak patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) and related peripheral neuropathies are the most commonly inherited neurological disorders in humans, characterized by clinical and genetic heterogeneity. The most prevalent clinical entities belonging to this group of disorders are CMT type 1A (CMT1A) and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP). CMT1A and HNPP are predominantly caused by a 1.

High-resolution melting analysis for genotyping of the myotonic dystrophy type 1 associated Alu insertion/deletion polymorphism.

Since its introduction, high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis has been used for genotyping of various types of sequence alterations. In this study, we report the use of HRM for genotyping of the 1-kb insertion/deletion polymorphism, involving a problematic region of five consecutive Alu elements, that is associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1. We combined a three-primer polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification approach with HRM using two primer sets.