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Mutations in the Gene Encoding the Inwardly-Rectifying Renal Potassium Channel, ROMK, Cause the Antenatal Variant of Bartter Syndrome: Evidence for Genetic Heterogeneity
Ist Teil von
Human molecular genetics, 1997-01, Vol.6 (1), p.17-26
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Inherited renal tubular disorders associated with hypokalemic alkalosis (Bartter-like syndromes) can be subdivided into at least three clinical phenotypes: (i) the hypocalciuric-hypomagnesemic Gitelman variant; (ii) the classic variant; and (iii) the antenatal hypercalciuric variant (also termed hyperprostaglandin E syndrome). Mutations in the Na-Cl cotransporter (NCCT) underlie the pathogenesis of the Gitelman variant and mutations in the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter (NKCC2) have recently been identified in the antenatal hypercalciuric variant. We now describe mutations in the gene encoding the inwardly-rectifying potassium channel, ROMK, in eight kindreds with the antenatal variant of Bartter syndrome. These findings indicate that antenatal Bartter syndrome is genetically heterogeneous and provide new insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Bartter-like syndromes.