Proposed Therapy for Neurodegenerative Diseases May Cause Early-onset CMT, Study Suggests
A proposed therapy for neurodegenerative diseases involving the removal of the neurofilament light chain protein (NEFL) may have harmful consequences in humans, potentially leading to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), researchers have found. The research team discovered this while studying the effects of a type of mutation in the NEFL gene,…