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A novel mutation of the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter gene in a Japanese family with Gitelman syndrome.
Clinical nephrology - 1 Jan 2006
Terui K, Shoji M, Yamashiki J, Hirai Y, Ishiguro A, Tsutaya S, Kageyama K, Yasujima M, Suda T
Abstract excerpt
Gitelman syndrome is an inherited renal disorder characterized by impaired NaCl reabsorption in the distal convoluted tubule leading to hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia and normocalcemic hypocalciuria. It has been shown that this syndrome results from mutations in the gene encoding the thiazide-sensitive sodium chloride cotransporter (TSC). We performed the mutational analysis in the TSC gene of a 30-year-old Japanese...
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