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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease is a foot deformity, it is a very high arched foot. People who have this disease can also have numb feet. CMT the peripheral nerves, which are the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. There are more than 80 kinds of CMT. Each kind is caused by a different kind of mutation, and more causes are being discovered every year. CMT is one kind of neuropathy which means that peripheral nerves are damaged. This disease affects about 2.8 million people worldwide. Some of the symptoms of this disease are loss of balance, an unusually high arched foot, numbness in the feet, loss of muscle is the legs causing skinny calves, and foot drop which is the inability to hold the foot horizontally. Also another thing that may or

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