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Identification of novel SLC3A1 gene mutations in Spanish cystinuria families and association with clinical phenotypes.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2005
Guillén M, Corella D, Cabello M L, González J I, Sabater A, Chaves J F, Hernández-Yago J
Abstract excerpt
Cystinuria is an inherited metabolic disease characterized by an abnormal urinary excretion of cystine and dibasic amino acids, leading to kidney stone formation. Incidence of cystinuria in the Mediterranean Spanish population is one of the highest in the world. In view of the low prevalence of previously reported mutations in the SLC3A1 gene, analyses to identify novel variants were carried out on 20 cystinuria...
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