| Term Name: | giant axonal neuropathy 1 | 
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| Definition: | An axonal neuopathy that is characterized by progressive motor and sensitive peripheral, central nervous system neuropathy, with axonal loss and giant axonal swellings filled with neurofilaments, and has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the gigaxonin (GAN) gene on chromosome 16q23. | 
| Ontology: | Human Disease [DOID:0090068] ( DOID:0090068 ) |