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The clinical significance of both heterozygous and homozygous (biallelic)\n                      <jats:italic>RFC1<\/jats:italic>\n                      expansions in more diverse patient populations remains unclear\u2014partly due to the absence of accurate, user\u2010friendly computational pipelines specifically tailored for tandem repeat analysis.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      To discern the relationship between\n                      <jats:italic>RFC1<\/jats:italic>\n                      expansions and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy (iPN), we performed whole\u2010genome sequencing (WGS) followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR)\u2010based confirmation in a large, well\u2010characterized US cohort consisting of 788 patients with iPN (369 pure small fiber neuropathy (SFN), 266 sensorimotor, 144 pure sensory, and 9 pure motor). 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These data indicate that motor nerve involvement should not exclude patients from\n                      <jats:italic>RFC1<\/jats:italic>\n                      repeat screening. Monoallelic expansions were observed at a nominally higher frequency in iPN than in controls (9.1% vs 7.2%), but this difference did not reach statistical significance (Fisher's exact\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.17). We also found no evidence of second mutations or expansions on the other allele among monoallelic carriers.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Interpretation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Our approach provides a robust, cost\u2010effective method for detecting\n                      <jats:italic>RFC1<\/jats:italic>\n                      expansions from WGS data. Our findings indicate that homozygous (biallelic) AAGGG repeat expansions in\n                      <jats:italic>RFC1<\/jats:italic>\n                      contribute to development of iPN. Heterozygous expansions may also confer disease risk, but future studies are needed to assess this observation and explore any phenotypic differences with biallelic cases. 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