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SUBMITTER: Nobuta H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503865 | biostudies-other | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nobuta Hiroko H Cilio Maria Roberta MR Danhaive Olivier O Tsai Hui-Hsin HH Tupal Srinivasan S Chang Sandra M SM Murnen Alice A Kreitzer Faith F Bravo Verenice V Czeisler Catherine C Gokozan Hamza Numan HN Gygli Patrick P Bush Sean S Weese-Mayer Debra E DE Conklin Bruce B Yee Siu-Pok SP Huang Eric J EJ Gray Paul A PA Rowitch David D Otero José Javier JJ
Acta neuropathologica 20150515 2
Human congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), resulting from mutations in transcription factor PHOX2B, manifests with impaired responses to hypoxemia and hypercapnia especially during sleep. To identify brainstem structures developmentally affected in CCHS, we analyzed two postmortem neonatal-lethal cases with confirmed polyalanine repeat expansion (PARM) or Non-PARM (PHOX2B∆8) mutation of PHOX2B. Both human cases showed neuronal losses within the locus coeruleus (LC), which is impor ...[more]