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Familial hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria: no mutations in the Ca2+-sensing receptor gene.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Sept 2001
Rodríguez-Soriano J, Vallo A, Quintela M J, Pérez de Nanclares G, Bilbao J R, Castaño L
Abstract excerpt
A 6-year-old boy presented with persistent hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis from early infancy. His 40-year-old father also had hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria. In both individuals serum values of intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) were repeatedly normal. Although these findings suggest a functional abnormality of the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR), no mutations in coding regions of the CaR gene...
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