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Abnormally low serum acylcarnitine levels in narcolepsy patients.
Sleep - 1 Mar 2011
Miyagawa Taku, Miyadera Hiroko, Tanaka Susumu, Kawashima Minae, Shimada Mihoko, Honda Yutaka, Tokunaga Katsushi, Honda Makoto
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, and REM sleep abnormalities. A genome-wide association study identified a novel narcolepsy-related single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs5770917, which is located adjacent to CPT1B (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B). In this study, we analyzed the CPT1B expression level and measured the carnitine fractions in...
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