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PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 73-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2013.09.007
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insensitivity to pain; SCN9A; mutation; CIP
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BACKROUND: Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is a rare condition in which patients have no pain perception and anosmia but are otherwise essentially normal (OMIM 243000). The recent discovery of the genetic defects underlying 3 monogenic pain disorders has provided additional and important insights about some components of human pain. Genetic studies in families demonstrating recessively inherited channelopathy-associated insensitivity to pain have identified nonsense mutations that result in truncation of the voltage-gated sodium channel type IX subunit (SCN9A), a 113.5-kb gene comprising coding 26 exons. Here we describe a patient with CIP with a new mutation in SCN9A not described yet. METHODS: All exons were sequenced. RESULT: All 26 coding exons were sequenced and two changes were identified in homozygosity in exon 10: c.1126 A > C causing K376Q and c.1124delG causing p.G375Afs* frame shift. CONCLUSION: We report a novel, loss-of-function mutation in homozygosity that causes congenital insensitivity to pain and provide a comprehensive clinical description of the patient. This contributes to the clinical and neurophysiological characteristic of the sodium channel Na(v)1.7 channelopathy and expand our genetic knowledge which might provide more accurate and comprehensive clinical electrophysiological and genetic information.
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