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Primary erythermalgia as a sodium channelopathy: screening for SCN9A mutations: exclusion of a causal role of SCN10A and SCN11A.
Archives of dermatology - 1 Mar 2008
Drenth Joost P H, Te Morsche Rene H M, Mansour Sahar, Mortimer Peter S
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OBJECTIVES: To elucidate the rate of missense mutations in the SCN9A gene (which encodes sodium channel Na(v)1.7) (OMIM 603415) among patients with primary erythermalgia and to examine the possibility that other sodium channels can cause the disease. DESIGN: Case series. SETTING: Department of Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS: Six patients with sporadic and 9 with unique...
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