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    Channelopathy-related SCN10A gene variants predict cerebellar dysfunction in multiple sclerosis

    , Article Neurology ; Volume 86, Issue 5 , 2016 , Pages 410-417 ; 00283878 (ISSN) Roostaei, T ; Sadaghiani, S ; Park, M. T. M ; Mashhadi, R ; Nazeri, A ; Noshad, S ; Salehi, M. J ; Naghibzadeh, M ; Moghadasi, A. N ; Owji, M ; Doosti, R ; Hashemi Taheri, A. P ; Rad, A. S ; Azimi, A ; Chakravarty, M. M ; Voineskos, A. N ; Nazeri, A ; Sahraian, M. A ; Sharif University of Technology
    Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 
    Abstract
    Objective: To determine the motor-behavioral and neural correlates of putative functional common variants in the sodium-channel NaV1.8 encoding gene (SCN10A) in vivo in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: We recruited 161 patients with relapsing-onset MS and 94 demographically comparable healthy participants. All patients with MS underwent structural MRI and clinical examinations (Expanded Disability Status Scale [EDSS] and Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite [MSFC]). Whole-brain voxel-wise and cerebellar volumetry were performed to assess differences in regional brain volumes between genotype groups. Resting-state fMRI was acquired from 62 patients with MS to evaluate...