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Revealing a subclinical salt-losing phenotype in heterozygous carriers of the novel S562P mutation in the alpha subunit of the epithelial sodium channel.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Feb 2009
Riepe Felix G, van Bemmelen Miguel X P, Cachat Francois, Plendl Hansjörg, Gautschi Ivan, Krone Nils, Holterhus Paul-Martin, Theintz Gerald, Schild Laurent
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OBJECTIVE: Pseudohypoaldosteronism type I (PHA1) is a rare inborn disease causing severe salt loss. Mutations in the three coding genes of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) are responsible for the systemic autosomal recessive form. So far, no phenotype has been reported in heterozygous carrier...
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