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Variable human phenotype associated with novel deletions of the PHOX2B gene.
Pediatric pulmonology - 1 Feb 2012
Jennings Lawrence J, Yu Min, Rand Casey M, Kravis Nicole, Berry-Kravis Elizabeth M, Patwari Pallavi P, Weese-Mayer Debra E
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BACKGROUND: Clinical testing for PHOX2B mutations is widely used for patients with any symptoms suggestive of hypoventilation (with/without anatomic/physiologic autonomic dysregulation), though not necessarily with the congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) phenotype. Consequently, a multitude of referrals for clinical PHOX2B testing (fragment analysis of the 20 polyalanine repeat region and/or...
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