“…We thank Delacour et al [1] for their comments on our paper entitled ‘Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy: an investigation in a rare and large Chinese family' [2]. We agree that a simple standard electrophysiological examination is sufficient to identify altered PMP22 gene carriers before the onset of the first episode of hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP).…”