Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results demonstrate that duplications of the PLP gene are the major cause of PMD. 9633722 1998
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Transgenic mice carrying extra copies of the Plp gene provide a valid model of PMD/SPG due to gene duplication. 9672418 1998
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Connatal Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: a missense mutation in exon 4 of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 9747038 1998
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In investigating genotype-phenotype correlations, we screened five Japanese families with PMD for PLP gene mutations and compared their clinical manifestations. 9008538 1997
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A large X-linked kindred with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher like disease (Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease [PMD] lacking a proteolipid protein [PLP] mutation) was studied for linkage to 34 X-chromosome short tandem repeat polymorphism markers. 9305348 1997
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report on a C-to-T transition in exon 6 of the PLP gene in a male with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease/X-linked spastic paraplegia. 9268109 1997
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The complicated form is heterogeneous, caused by mutations of the L1CAM gene at Xq28 (SPG1) or the PLP gene at Xq22 (SPG2) that is allelic to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). 8780101 1996
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE SPG2 shows mutations in one of the major myelin proteins, the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene, and is allelic to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 8782167 1996
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Because a homologous myelin protein gene, PMP22, is duplicated in the majority of patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A, PLP gene overdosage may be a important genetic abnormality in PMD and affect myelin formation. 8659540 1996
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Although this patient might be heterozygous for a mutation of the extraexonic PLP gene sequences or of other unknown X-linked PLP associated genes, we speculate that this case had a dysmyelinating disease with an autosomal recessive trait characterized by the same phenotype as that of PMD. 8733901 1996
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report a Dutch family with a relatively mild form of PMD, in which the disease cosegregates with a (G-to-A) mutation in the initiation codon of the PLP gene. 8786077 1996
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We studied cultured skin fibroblasts from 2 brothers with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease who exhibited no detectable exonic mutation of the PLP gene. 7574457 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Findings in our patients support that this form of spastic paraplesia is allelic to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease and that the mild clinical phenotype of this disorder may be related to a mutation within exon 3B of the PLP gene. 7488049 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease: a point mutation in exon 6 of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 7541731 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report a dinucleotide polymorphism in the first intron of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene with a heterozygosity frequency of 0.69 useful for molecular analysis of families with X-linked neurologic disorders characterized by dysmyelination of the central nervous system, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease (PMD) and X-linked Spastic Paraplegia (SPG2). 7635479 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The data here presented show that PMD can occur in females carrying a mutation in the PLP gene. 7539211 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Single-strand conformational polymorphism analysis of an affected male with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) showed a slight change in mobility of amplified exon 5 of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 7539212 1995
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In an attempt to identify molecular defects of this genomic region that are responsible for PMD, these results meant that RFLP analysis could be used to improve genetic counseling for the numerous affected families in which a PLP exon mutation could not be demonstrated. 7915877 1994
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This is the first report of a frameshift mutation in the PLP gene in PMD. 7684945 1993
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Linkage of a new mutation in the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) in a large Finnish kindred. 7684886 1993
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Direct sequencing of the PLP gene and PLP mRNAs from the brain of the PMD patient revealed a G to T transition in exon V of the PLP gene, which leads to a glycine to cysteine substitution at residue 220. 7683951 1993
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This is the first report of a mutation in exon VII of the PLP gene associated with PMD. 7509234 1993
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The recent detection of mutations in the myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) gene in several PMD patients offers the opportunity both to design DNA-based tests that would be useful in diagnosing a proportion of PMD cases and, in particular, to evaluate the diagnostic utility of single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis for this disease. 1376966 1992
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE New variant in exon 3 of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene in a family with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 1376553 1992
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A new mutation in the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene in a German family with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 1707231 1991