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Homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in the ATP6V1B1 gene in patients with renal tubular acidosis and sensorineural hearing loss.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2013
Mohebbi N, Vargas-Poussou R, Hegemann S C A, Schuknecht B, Kistler A D, Wüthrich R P, Wagner C A
Abstract excerpt
Distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is characterized by the inability to excrete acid in the renal collecting ducts resulting in inappropriately alkaline urine and hyperchloremic (normal anion gap) metabolic acidosis in the context of a normal (or near-normal) glomerular filtration rate. Inborn dRTA can be due to autosomal dominant or recessive gene defects. Clinical symptoms vary from mild acidosis, incidental...
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