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Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2009;49:97–121. doi: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-061008-103222

Table 2.

Human genes responsible for monogenic disorders featuring pathological pain or insensitivity to pain

Disordera OMIMb Linkage Gene Protein Reference
Pathological pain
FHM type I 141500 19p13 CACNA1A Cav2.1 calcium channel (195)
FHM type II 602481 1q21 ATP1A2 α2 subunit, Na+,K+-ATPase (196)
FHM type III 609634 2q24 SCN1A Nav1.1 sodium channel (197)
FMF 249100 16p13 MEFV Pyrin (198)
HNA 162100 17q25 SEPT9 Septin 9 (199)
PE 133020 2q24 SCN9A Nav1.7 sodium channel (148)
PEPD 167400 2q24 SCN9A Nav1.7 sodium channel (149)
Congenital insensitivity to pain
CIDP 243000 2q24 SCN9A Nav1.7 sodium channel (146)
HSAN type I 162400 9q22 SPTLC1 Serine palmitoyltransferase, long chain 1 (200, 201)
HSAN type II 201300 12p13 HSN2 Unknown (202)
HSAN type III 223900 9p31 IKBKAP IKK-complex associated protein (203, 204)
HSAN type IV 256800 1q21 NTRK1 Neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor (205)
HSAN type V 608654 1p13 NGFB Nerve growth factor, β (206)
a

CIDP: congenital indifference to pain (autosomal recessive); FHM: familial hemiplegic migraine; FMF: familial Mediterranean fever; HNA: hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy; HSAN: hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy; PE: primary erythromelalgia (primary erythermalgia); PEPD: paroxysmal extreme pain disorder (familial rectal pain).

b

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man entry number (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=omim).