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Alternative splicing may contribute to time-dependent manifestation of inherited erythromelalgia.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Jun 2010
Choi Jin-Sung, Cheng Xiaoyang, Foster Edmund, Leffler Andreas, Tyrrell Lynda, Te Morsche Rene H M, Eastman Emmanuella M, Jansen Henry J, Huehne Kathrin, Nau Carla, Dib-Hajj Sulayman D, Drenth Joost P H, Waxman Stephen G
Abstract excerpt
The Na(v)1.7 sodium channel is preferentially expressed in nocioceptive dorsal root ganglion and sympathetic ganglion neurons. Gain-of-function mutations in Na(v)1.7 produce the nocioceptor hyperexcitability underlying inherited erythromelalgia, characterized in most kindreds by early-age onset of severe pain. Here we describe a mutation (Na(v)1.7-G616R) in a pedigree with adult-onset of pain in some family...
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