[Two themes dominated the literature on demyelinating neuropathies in the past 2 years: (1) the dissection of the localization and roles of new molecules in the axon-Schwann cell unit, including periaxin and connexin32, which are mutated in specific heritable neuropathies; (2) the recognition of the range of phenotypes associated with individual genetic abnormalities, so that the same defects can even produce both demyelinating and axonal forms of heritable neuropathies.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE