Infantile Pain Episodes Associated with Novel Nav1.9 Mutations in Familial Episodic Pain Syndrome in Japanese Families.

Painful peripheral neuropathy has been correlated with various voltage-gated sodium channel mutations in sensory neurons. Recently Nav1.9, a voltage-gated sodium channel subtype, has been established as a genetic influence for certain peripheral pain syndromes. In this study, we performed a genetic...

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Main Authors: Hiroko Okuda, Atsuko Noguchi, Hatasu Kobayashi, Daiki Kondo, Kouji H Harada, Shohab Youssefian, Hirotomo Shioi, Risako Kabata, Yuki Domon, Kazufumi Kubota, Yutaka Kitano, Yasunori Takayama, Toshiaki Hitomi, Kousaku Ohno, Yoshiaki Saito, Takeshi Asano, Makoto Tominaga, Tsutomu Takahashi, Akio Koizumi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4880298?pdf=render