Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease constitutes a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of hereditary motor and sensory peripheral neuropathies. On the basis of electrophysiologic properties and histopathology, CMT has been divided into primary peripheral demyelinating (type 1) and primary peripheral axonal (type 2) neuropathies. The form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy that maps to chromosome Xq13 (CMTX1) is X-linked dominant or X-linked intermediate; heterozygous females are more mildly affected than are hemizygous males. [From OMIM]