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Evidence for genetic heterogeneity in Dent's disease.
Kidney international - 1 May 2004
Hoopes Richard R, Raja Khalid M, Koich April, Hueber Paul, Reid Robert, Knohl Stephen J, Scheinman Steven J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Dent's disease (X-linked nephrolithiasis) is a proximal tubulopathy that has been consistently associated with inactivating mutations in the CLCN5 gene encoding the ClC-5 chloride channel expressed in tubular epithelial cells. METHODS: We performed mutation analysis of the coding region of CLCN5 by DNA sequencing in 32 unrelated males, all of whom met the following three clinical criteria for the...
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