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Common missense variant of monocarboxylate transporter 9 (MCT9/SLC16A9) gene is associated with renal overload gout, but not with all gout susceptibility.
Human cell - 1 Dec 2013
Nakayama Akiyoshi, Matsuo Hirotaka, Shimizu Takuya, Ogata Hiraku, Takada Yuzo, Nakashima Hiroshi, Nakamura Takahiro, Shimizu Seiko, Chiba Toshinori, Sakiyama Masayuki, Ushiyama Chisaki, Takada Tappei, Inoue Katsuhisa, Kawai Sayo, Hishida Asahi, Wakai Kenji, Hamajima Nobuyuki, Ichida Kimiyoshi, Sakurai Yutaka, Kato Yukio, Shimizu Toru, Shinomiya Nariyoshi
Abstract excerpt
Gout is a common disease caused by hyperuricemia, which shows elevated serum uric acid (SUA) levels. From a viewpoint of urate handling in humans, gout patients can be divided into those with renal overload (ROL) gout with intestinal urate underexcretion, and those with renal underexcretion (RUE) gout. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) revealed an association between SUA and a variant in human...
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