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Sleep-disordered Breathing in Newborn Mice Heterozygous for the Transcription Factor Phox2b
28 Apr 2005
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RATIONALE: Central congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare autosomal dominant syndrome present from birth, and characterized by depressed ventilation during sleep. Heterozygous mutations of the homeobox gene Phox2b were recently found in a very high proportion of patients. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether newborn mice with heterozygous targeted deletion of the transcription factor Phox2b would...
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