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Molecular and clinical studies of Dent's disease in Japan: biochemical examination and renal ultrasonography do not predict carrier state.
Clinical nephrology - 1 Apr 2004
Matsuyama T, Awazu M, Oikawa T, Inatomi J, Sekine T, Igarashi T
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BACKGROUND: Dent's disease is an X-linked renal tubular disorder characterized by low-molecular-weight-proteinuria, hypercalciuria, nephrolithiasis and renal failure. The disease is due to inactivation of a renal chloride channel gene, CLCN5. We have investigated 3 unrelated Japanese families for CLCN5 mutations and assessed the carrier mothers biochemically and ultrasonogaraphically to ascertain whether these...
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