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Cystinuria and other noncalcareous calculi.
Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America - 1 Dec 2002
Shekarriz Bijan, Stoller Marshall L
Abstract excerpt
Urinary stone disease is the only clinical presentation in patients with cystinuria. Two genes have been associated with type I (SLC3A1) and non-type I (SLC7A9) cystinuria and multiple mutations of these genes have been identified. The type I form is completely recessive while the non-type I form is incompletely recessive. Clinically, heterozygotes with type I mutations are silent while heterozygotes with...
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