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Advances in genetic aspects of cystinuria.
Molecular urology - 1 Jan 2000
Ito H, Egoshi K, Mizoguchi K, Akakura K
Abstract excerpt
Cystinuria has been clinically classified into three subtypes (I, II, and III) by Rosenberg and associates. In 1994, the SLC3A1 (rBAT) genes which is one of the genes responsible for cystinuria, was located on chromosome 2(2p21). However, it was demonstrated that rBAT is responsible only for Type I cystinuria. At present, 43 mutations, including 5 discovered in our laboratory, have been reported in the rBAT gene...
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