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SUBMITTER: Lee DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2967011 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Dong Hun DH Kim Jin Kyung JK Oh Sook Eui SE Noh Jung Woo JW Lee Young-Ki YK
Journal of Korean medical science 20101026 11
Familial Juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (FJHN, OMIM #162000) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder characterized by hyperuricemia with renal uric acid under-excretion, gout and chronic kidney disease. In most but not all families with FJHN, genetic studies have revealed mutations in the uromodulin (UMOD) gene located on chromosome 16p11-p13. We here described a novel heterozygous missense mutation (c.1382C>A causing p.Ala461Glu) in an affected 16-year-old male with hyperuricemia, gout and ch ...[more]