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Neuropathic pain in two-generation twins carrying the sodium channel Nav1.7 functional variant R1150W.
Pain - 1 Oct 2014
Harrer Judith U, Uçeyler Nurcan, Doppler Kathrin, Fischer Tanya Z, Dib-Hajj Sulayman D, Waxman Stephen G, Sommer Claudia
Abstract excerpt
We present clinical, neuropathological, and molecular genetic findings of a family with a new pain phenotype of the sodium channel gene SCN9A polymorphism R1150W. A 46-year-old woman presented with a 5-year history of episodic temperature- and exercise-dependent burning pain of the feet and lower legs associated with numbness of the distal upper and lower limbs. Her monozygotic twin sister and their mother and...
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