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Recessive distal renal tubular acidosis in Sarawak caused by AE1 mutations.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Feb 2006
Choo Keng E, Nicoli Taija K, Bruce Lesley J, Tanner Michael J A, Ruiz-Linares Andres, Wrong Oliver M
Abstract excerpt
Mutations of the AE1 (SLC4A1, Anion-Exchanger 1) gene that codes for band 3, the renal and red cell anion exchanger, are responsible for many cases of familial distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA). In Southeast Asia this disease is usually recessive, caused either by homozygosity of a single AE1...
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