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 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 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 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 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 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 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 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the exons of the PLP gene of an affected male from a large Indiana PMD kindred. 2480601 1989
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It has been postulated that a defect in the PLP gene is responsible for PMD. 1720927 1991
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 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 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 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 Carrier detection and prenatal diagnosis of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease using a combination of anonymous DNA polymorphisms and the proteolipid protein (PLP) gene cDNA. 1676565 1991
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