Addendum to 'recent advances in the genetics of distal hereditary motor neuropathy give insight to a disease mechanism involving copper homeostasis that may extend to other motor neuron disorders'.

摘要

Within our manuscript entitled 'Recent advances in the genetics of distal hereditary motor neuropathy give insight to a disease mechanism involving copper homeostasis that may extend to other motor neuron disorders' published in Clin Genet 2011: 79: 23-34, we assembled a table that listed known distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMN) loci, and identified causal genes, to highlight (i) the genetic heterogeneity of dHMN and (ii) the causative dHMN genes of which the encoded proteins' function was discussed in the manuscript. We acknowledge that a locus, discovered in 2008 by Muglia et al. in an Italian family with an autosomal dominant form of dHMN with pyramidal features (causative gene yet to be identified), was overlooked and left out from that published table. We have now updated Table 1 and that of the authors who identified the locus.