Your doctor has to : Document recurrent focal compression neuropathies with a family history consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance, in which each child of a person with hnpp has a 50% chance of having it ; request a chromosomal microarray from the lab on your insurance company's list. 80% of cases are from a deletion of the pmp22 gene on the short arm of chromosome 17; 20% a from a mutation in pmp22.
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