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Absence of the SLC22A12 gene mutation in Turkish population with primary gout disease.
Rheumatology international - 1 Nov 2013
Yakut Sezin, Cetin Zafer, Arman Mehmet, Akbas Halide, Manguoglu Ayse E, Luleci Guven
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the study was to examine whether SLC22A12 gene mutations might be influenced in primary gout disease. We included 32 patients with diagnosis of primary gout disease and 100 healthy volunteers. DNA was purified from peripheral blood, and all exons of the SLC22A12 gene were sequenced. We did not find any mutations in the SLC22A12 gene in all of the patients, but found 5 polymorphisms in exons 1 (g.T258C,...
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