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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 252, 期 1-2, 页码 88-91出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2006.03.043
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Smith-Magenis syndrome; melatonin; circadian rhythm; beta-blockers
Smith-Magenis syndrome (SMS) is a clinically recognizable contiguous gene syndrome, caused by interstitial deletion of chromosome 17p11.2. The SMS phenotype include distinctive facial features, developmental delay and neurobehavioral abnormalities. The patients present major sleep disturbances ascribed to a phase shift of their circadian rhythm of melatonin with a paradoxical diurnal secretion of the hormone. Treatment with morning beta-blockers and evening melatonin reinstated a normally timed melatonin circadian rhythm, improved daytime behavior and restored normal sleep habits, resulting in a greatly improved quality of life for both SMS patients and their family. SMS is the demonstration of biological basis for sleep disorder in a genetic disease. Considering that clock genes mediate generation of circadian rhythms, we suggest that haploinsufficiency for a circadian system gene mapping to chromosome 17p 11.2 may cause the inversion of circadian rhythm in SMS. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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