Article
A unique mutation in the vitamin D receptor gene in three Japanese patients with vitamin D-dependent rickets type II: utility of single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis for heterozygous carrier detection.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1991
Saijo T, Ito M, Takeda E, Huq A H, Naito E, Yokota I, Sone T, Pike J W, Kuroda Y
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D-dependent rickets type II is a hereditary disease resulting from a defective vitamin D receptor. In three Japanese patients with vitamin D-dependent rickets type II whose fibroblasts displayed normal cytosol binding and impaired nuclear uptake of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, western, Southern, and northern analyses failed to disclose any abnormalities in vitamin D3 receptor protein and its gene. Exons 2...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Asian People
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Southern
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- Exons