Mutations causes inherited neuropathy

In my searching for an article, the one about how mutations causes inherited neuropathy at 'Physorg.com' caught my interest. The article states following:

Mutations in a protein called dynein, required for the proper
functioning of sensory nerve cells, can cause defects in mice that may provide
crucial clues leading to better treatments for a human nerve disorder known as
peripheral neuropathy, which affects about three percent of all those over age
60

On the December 26th, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center discovered that mice with mutations - with only one copy of a genecoding of dynein protein have many defects in the ability to perceive the spatial orientation of body parts.
The defects caused a reduction of sensory nerve cells, and therefor the ability to use many body parts. All this could be matched to humans.
Peripheral neuropathy symptoms can be pain in the hands and arms, legs and feet, and progressive weakness in the arms and legs.

This is a step closer to help preventing many diseases caused by damages in the nervous system, like sclerosis and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
I hope that this article can help you all a little bit with our related topic in anatomy, the nervous system. I found it very usefull.