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The Uromodulin C744G mutation causes MCKD2 and FJHN in children and adults and may be due to a possible founder effect.
Kidney international - 1 Mar 2007
Wolf M T F, Beck B B, Zaucke F, Kunze A, Misselwitz J, Ruley J, Ronda T, Fischer A, Eifinger F, Licht C, Otto E, Hoppe B, Hildebrandt F
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal dominant medullary cystic kidney disease type 2 (MCKD2) is a tubulo-in terstitial nephropathy that causes renal salt wasting, hyperuricemia, gout, and end-stage renal failure in the fifth decade of life. This disorder was described to have an age of onset between the age of 20-30 years or even later. Mutations in the Uromodulin (UMOD) gene were published in patients with familial juvenile hyperuricemic...
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