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Immunological profile in a family with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus with a novel 11 kb deletion in AVPR2 and ARHGAP4 genes.
BMC medical genetics - 20 May 2008
Fujimoto Masaya, Imai Kohsuke, Hirata Kenji, Kashiwagi Reiichi, Morinishi Yoichi, Kitazawa Katsuhiko, Sasaki Sei, Arinami Tadao, Nonoyama Shigeaki, Noguchi Emiko
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BACKGROUND: Congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is characterised by an inability to concentrate urine despite normal or elevated plasma levels of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin. We report a Japanese extended family with NDI caused by an 11.2-kb deletion that includes th...
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