Article
X-linked hypophosphatemia. A phenotype in search of a cause.
The International journal of biochemistry - 1 May 1992
Tenenhouse H S, Scriver C R
Abstract excerpt
XLH is an important disease, it is the subject of several classic articles in the medical sciences (Scriver et al., 1991), and it has been an important stimulus to study renal hypophosphatemias and how they are involved in rickets and osteomalacia (Scriver, 1974; Scriver and Tenenhouse, 1991). Renal transport is the major determinant of phosphate homeostasis in mammals and it is unlikely that this important...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Hypophosphatemia, Familial
- Kidney
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- X Chromosome
