Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, dominant intermediate type C
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, dominant intermediate type C
A form (OMIM:608323) of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease characterised by clinical and pathologic features that are intermediate between demyelinating and axonal peripheral neuropathies, as well as motor median nerve conduction velocities ranging from 25 to 45 m/sec.Molecular pathology
Caused by defects in YARS, which encodes tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase, an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that catalyses the aminoacylation of tRNA by its cognate amino acid.