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Association between intronic SNP in urate-anion exchanger gene, SLC22A12, and serum uric acid levels in Japanese.
Life sciences - 2 Nov 2006
Shima Yukio, Teruya Koji, Ohta Hidehiko
Abstract excerpt
Serum uric acid levels are maintained by urate synthesis and excretion. URAT1 (coded by SLC22CA12) was recently proposed to be the major absorptive urate transporter protein in the kidney regulating blood urate levels. Because genetic background is known to affect serum urate levels, we hypothesized that genetic variations in SLC22A12 may predispose humans to hyperuricemia and gout. We investigated rs893006...
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