Haploinsufficiency of the nerve growth factor beta gene in a 1p13 deleted female child with an insensitivity to pain

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 833-837

  Fitzgibbon, Gregory J ^a   Kingston, Helen ^a   Needham, Margaret ^a   Gaunt, Lorraine ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR BETA SUBUNIT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANALGESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME DELETION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; FLUSHING; GAIT DISORDER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MOUTH ULCER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTION; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONGENITAL ANALGESIA; GENETICS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PAIN INSENSITIVITY, CONGENITAL;

EID: 70349576951     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03173.x     Document Type: Article

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