Abstract:Introduction: The etiology of sporadic peripheral neuropathy (PN) remains unclear in a significant proportion of patients. In European and North American surveys, genetic causes have been increasingly recognized in these patients. Little is known about Latin American populations. Objective: We assessed the diagnostic yield of a comprehensive next generation sequencing (NGS) panel in a cohort of Brazilian patients with PN without family history. Potential predictors of genetic etiology in this group were furthe… Show more
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