PHOX2B mutations in three Chinese patients with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

作     者：Siu-Fong June Or Ming-for Tony Tong Fai-Man Ivan Lo Chi-Wai Law Ting-Yat Miu Delphine Trochet Tak-Sum Stephen Lam 

作者机构：Clinical Genetic Service Department of Health Hong Kong SAR China Department of Paediatrics Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong SAR China Department de Genetique Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades Paris France 

出 版 物：《Chinese Medical Journal》 (中华医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2006年第119卷第20期

页      面：1749-1752页

核心收录：

学科分类：100218[医学-急诊医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 10[医学] 

主　　题：congenital central hypoventilation syndrome PHOX2B Chinese mutation 

摘      要：Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome （CCHS, OMIM #209880） is a rare autosomal dominant disorder of the autonomic nervous system （ANS） characterized by an abnormal autonomic ventilatory response to progressive hypercarbia and sustained hypoxemia. Patients typically present in the newborn period with hypoventilation or apnea asleep, awake, or both, without any associated cardiac, pulmonary, neuromuscular or brainstem lesions. Rarely, some patients may present at a later age and are diagnosed to have late onset central hypoventilation syndrome （LOCHS）.1 Other features of ANS dysfunction such as feeding difficulty due to oesophageal dysmotility, severe constipation in the absence of Hirschsprung disease, poor regulation of basal body temperature, episodes of profuse sweating, pupillary and ocular abnormalities, decreased beat-to-beat variability of heart rate, attenuated response of heart rate to exercise, abnormal fluctuation of blood pressure, decreased perception to pain, and decreased perception to anxiety may be variably present but not essential for diagnosis Furthermore, this central hypoventilation can occur as an isolated feature or in association with a number of neurocristopathies, notably Hirschsprung disease （Haddad syndrome, OMIM #209880） and tumours of the sympathetic nervous system particularly neuroblastoma, ganglioneuro- blastoma, and ganglioneuroma, which were found in 20% and 5%--10% of CCHS patients, respectively.2 Studies of genes pertinent to the early embryologic development of the neural crest cells, specifically the endothelin and the RET-GDNF signaling pathways, have recently led to the identification of PHOX2B as the major disease causing gene for CCHS.2-6 PHOX2B was mapped to chromosome 4p12 and consists of 3 exons. It encodes a highly conserved paired-like homeobox transcription factor of 314 amino acids linked to the RET-GDNF signaling