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Neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism: further clinical and molecular delineation.
European journal of pediatrics - 1 May 2011
Al-Khalaf Fawziya A, Ismail Adel, Soliman Ashraf T, Cole David E C, Ben-Omran Tawfeg
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: We report a newborn female from a consanguineous Sri Lankan family with clinical and biochemical features of neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism (NSHPT). Mutation screening of the calcium-sensing receptor (CASR) gene in genomic DNA revealed a homozygous truncating mutation (c.679C>T, predicting p.R227X), confirming the clinical diagnosis. Other mutations at the R227 position are reported to cause...
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