Article
Salt-wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia: genotypical peculiarities in a Sicilian ethnic group.
Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 Jul 2008
Wasniewska M, Caruso M, Indovina S, Crisafulli G, Mirabelli S, Salzano G, Arrigo T, De Luca F
Abstract excerpt
Here we report for the first time the results of the molecular study of 17 unrelated patients with salt-wasting (SW) congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) belonging to a Sicilian ethnic group, as corroborated by patients' pedigree taken to include 2 generations in the paternal and maternal lineage...
Topics
- Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Ethnicity
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Point Mutation
- Sicily
- Sodium
- Sodium Chloride, Dietary
- Steroid 21-Hydroxylase
