Talk:Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy

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Hello. I am a member of WikiProject Medicine, a Wikipedia wide project that maintains and improves articles that fall under the scope of medicine. Since your article has fallen under our scope, I have placed the correct template(s) on this talk page for verification. Upon reviewed of the article, I'd like to make a few points, as shown below:

• Assess article with class and importance factors
• Added Neurology and Genetics task force

Leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. I'm glad this article could fall within our scope, and I hope to see it grow large! Many thanks! Renaissancee (talk) 16:32, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Merge with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease?

IMHO this article should be merged with Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, considering that the only difference is a slightly different classification system. kashmiri 23:30, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

I agree. The pages contain almost identical information. At the end of the article is stated that HMSN is sometimes equalled to CMT. Are there situations where it is not? mkljun 17:06, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Yep, they look the same, with the exception of HMSN4 (Refsum disease) which is clearly different to CMT4. However, it is worth noting that some conditions are better known by the name HMSN than CMT because CMT traditionally only referred to what is formally known as CMT1 and CMT2 (= HMSN1 and HMSN2). IMHO it would be good to have an expert view here. kashmiri 13:24, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

HNPP is a HMSN but is different from HMSN. So HMSN is more general than CMT. So in my opninion they shouldn't be merged. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.197.125.137 (talk) 18:04, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

This proposal was over a year old with no consensus to do the merge, I deleted the proposed merge. --WGFinley (talk) 02:09, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

References

I am an undergraduate biology student at Nebraska Wesleyan University and will be working with my instructor Michele Petracca and the APS Wikipedia Initiative to improve this article this semester. These are the articles I am thinking about using to add information to the Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy.

Harding, A., & Thomas, P. (1980). The clinical features of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy types i and ii. Brain: A journal of Neurology, 103(2), 259-280. doi: 10.1093/brain/103.2.259

Ishiura, H., Sako, W., Yoshida, M., Kawarai, T., Tanabe, O., Goto, J., & Ikemura, M. (2012). The TRK-Fused Gene Is Mutated in Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy with Proximal Dominant Involvement. American Journal Of Human Genetics, 91(2), 320-329. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.07.014

KARADIMA, G. G., KOUTSIS, G. G., FLOROSKUFI, P. P., HOULDEN, H. H., & PANAS, M. M. (2013). A study of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies (Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease) in the Greek population. (English). Archives Of Hellenic Medicine / Arheia Ellenikes Iatrikes, 30(2), 186-196.

Sevilla, T., Martínez-Rubio, D., Márquez, C., Paradas, C., Colomer, J., Jaijo, T., & ... Espinós, C. (2013). Genetics of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in the Spanish Gypsy population: the hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy-Russe in depth. Clinical Genetics, 83(6), 565-570. doi:10.1111/cge.12015

Vance, J. (1991). Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies. Journal of Medical Genetics, 28, 1-5. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1016739/pdf/jmedgene00027-0003.pdf

Lmaas5 (talk) 16:16, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, as this article falls under Wikiproject Medicine there are some guidelines that need to be applied. WP:MEDRS & WP:MEDMOS give some idea into what is needed. Sources are preferably secondary, that is to say, not research papers but rather reviews, professional text-books and position statements from major organizations. Also it is preferable to use sources published within the last 5 years. Consider adding a pubmed ID so that they can be found quickly, not just the doi. A pubmed search will yield many good results [1], and if you do not have access through your university feel free to pop me a mail (use the form) with a pubmed-link to the review and I will help out as best I can. CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 22:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Review: Wow. You added a lot of great information. You really expanded on what the article was already directing people towards. You have a great load of information. With that being said it could use further organization. In your first section you talk about how there are 7 types of CMT disease, which is good but the table below should be referenced or perhaps moved to be closer to this area of discussion. You also talk about how there is two types. There should be a new paragraph started when you begin speaking about the second type. The second section needs the word causes to be a heading for that section. You write it is sec linked not sex linked. It also sounds like it is sex linked recessive, so that might be worth mentioning as it is a specific detail. Perhaps some of the information in these sections could also be used to create a short section on history then another section on causes and another section defining what the two types are and even a section describing the seven types of CMT disease to go with the table as well as a treatments heading/section. These are just ideas, the information that you have is good information but better organization will make it more accessible.Icecreamcooper (talk) 20:04, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Review: Your article goes into a lot of very helpful detail and seems to flow nicely. However, the only critique I would make would maybe be to split up the article with more headings; this would help to better organize your information and help the reader follow along more easily. I also feel as if some type of visual would contribute a lot to your information as listed. Maybe a picture of the structure of either one of the neuropathies. Otherwise, I think it looks great. SydneyFocht (talk) 05:48, 23 April 2014 (UTC)