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 Biomarker disease BEFREE The Plp1 overexpressing mouse model (PLP-tg<sup>66/66</sup> ) develops a phenotype very similar to human PMD, with early and severe motor dysfunction and a dramatic decrease in lifespan. 29027761 2018
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Additionally, a single intracerebroventricular injection of MO-PLP into the brains of neonatal mice, carrying a deletion of an intronic splicing enhancer identified in a PMD patient that reduces the Plp1 spliced form, corrected alternative splicing at both RNA and protein levels in the CNS. 30195779 2018
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Characterization of a PLP-overexpressing transgenic rat, a model for the connatal form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 21784154 2011
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE A defective disulfide bond in PLP protein could be important in the pathogenesis of PMD. 21177054 2011
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our findings also point to unique pathological functions of the overexpressed PLP in PMD patients with duplication of this gene. 20637281 2010
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Gly197Arg is the first novel mutation located within exon 4 of the PLP gene and associated with mild PMD/SPG2 in a Japanese patient. 18783902 2009
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic diagnosis of PLP gene duplications/deletions in patients with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 16207216 2005
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a dysmyelinating disease caused by mutations, deletions, or duplications of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 15753308 2005
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE As only 10 - 30 % of patients with a Pelizaeus Merzbacher disease (PMD) phenotype carry mutations of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene, we were interested if the degree and time-dependent progression of abnormal MRI and MRS findings would discriminate patients with mutations of the PLP gene (Pelizaeus Merzbacher disease, PMD) from patients without a defect of the PLP gene (Pelizaeus Merzbacher-like disease, PMLD). 12910435 2003
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) and a complicated form of familial spastic paraparesis (spastic paraplegia 2 [SPG2]) are X-linked development disorders of myelin formation caused by a mutation in the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene.Spastic paraplegia 2 is allelic to PMD. 12580714 2003
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Several naturally occurring and transgenic animal models with PLP gene mutations or deletions have contributed to our understanding of dysmyelination in PMD and the general knowledge of myelination and myelin repair. 12230321 2002
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A duplication of the whole PLP gene is the most common mutation and results usually in the milder classical phenotype, whereas point mutations in PLP gene often result in the rarer and more severe connatal form of PMD. 11786921 2002
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We focus on the increased dosage of the PLP gene that is the major cause of PMD and results from a submicroscopic duplication of Xq22. 11535114 2001
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The fetus, in common with the proband, was identified as PMD-affected being a carrier of the PLP gene duplication, inherited from the mother, while the two aunts were non-carriers. 11536268 2001
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in introns of the PLP gene, even at positions that are not 100% conserved at splice sites, are an important cause of PMD. 11071483 2000
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We conclude that the two cases are a rare type of dysmyelinating disorder with PMD phenotype of adult onset and could be caused by previously unrecognized abnormalities of the PLP gene or other genes. 10651021 2000
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recent studies have shown that an increased PLP dosage, resulting from total duplication of the PLP gene, invariably causes the classic form of PMD. 10588103 2000
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE It has also emerged that duplications of the PLP gene are the commonest mutation in PMD. 10767322 2000
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is an X-linked recessive disease caused by coding sequence mutations in the PLP gene, sub-microscopic duplications of variable sizes including the PLP gene or very rarely deletions of the PLP gene. 10878666 2000
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Different mutations in the same codon of the proteolipid protein gene, PLP, may help in correlating genotype with phenotype in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease/X-linked spastic paraplegia (PMD/SPG2). 9934976 1999
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a leukodystrophy associated with mutations in the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 10401787 1999
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Increased dosage of the proteolipid protein (Plp) gene causes CNS disease (Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease [PMD]), which has many similarities to disorders of the PNS associated with duplication of the peripheral myelin protein-22 (PMP22) gene locus. 10586248 1999
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) gene (i.e., the PLP/DM20 gene) has been of some interest because of its role in certain human demyelinating diseases, such as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease. 10493736 1999
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a dysmyelinating disorder of the central nervous system typically caused by duplications or missense mutations of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene. 10586260 1999
CUI: C0205711
Disease: Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Duplications of the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene have been found in a proportion of patients, suggesting that, in addition to coding-region or splice-site mutations, overdosage of the gene can cause PMD. 9634530 1998