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Central congenital hypoventilation syndrome: changing face of a less mysterious but more complex genetic disorder.
Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Jun 2009
Grigg-Damberger Madeleine, Wells Audrey
Abstract excerpt
Central congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a disorder in which affected individuals fail to breathe during sleep despite progressive hypercapnia and hypoxia. Discovery of the genetic link between PHOX2B gene mutations and CCHS represents a breakthrough in the diagnosis of CCHS, identification of patients with late-onset central hyperventilation syndrome (LO-CHS), association of mutated alleles with...
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