Inherited Neuropathy Consortium
The field of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) research is expanding, and people with the disease can help move it forward.
Discovery of the complicated genetics underlying CMT has made it clear that more studies are needed to correlate the progression, symptoms and outward manifestations of the disease with its specific genetic type.
Researchers say that understanding the differences among the various types of CMT will improve the effectiveness of clinical trials and hasten the development of targeted treatments.
Knowing which mutation a person has also could help doctors better understand the variable nature of the disease, predict its likely course, and provide more specific information about medical management, inheritance patterns (for family planning), and other concerns.
With that aim in mind, a network of centres specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of CMT is being established. While training the next generation of CMT clinical researchers, the centres will collect and record genetic, biologic and other data from people with the disease.
“The goal is to make this an international network of the leading CMT centres where everybody evaluates patients the same way,” says Professor Mary Reilly, from the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases in London.
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