Charcot-Marie-Tooth is a muscular wasting disease that affects 1 in 2,500 people. Researchers have discovered that this occurs when a large gene on the short arm (p-arm) of chromosome number 17 makes a new copy of itself. What kind of chromosomal mutation is this? deletion duplication translocation inversion
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