%0 Journal Article
%T Genetic diagnosis of X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets in a cohort study: Tubular reabsorption of phosphate and 1,25(OH)2D serum levels are associated with PHEX mutation type
%A Marcos Morey
%A Lidia Castro-Feij¨®o
%A Jes¨²s Barreiro
%A Paloma Cabanas
%A Manuel Pombo
%A Marta Gil
%A Ignacio Bernabeu
%A Jos¨¦ M D¨ªaz-Grande
%A Lourdes Rey-Cordo
%A Gema Ariceta
%A Itxaso Rica
%A Jos¨¦ Nieto
%A Ram¨®n Vilalta
%A Loreto Martorell
%A Jaime Vila-Cots
%A Fernando Aleixandre
%A Ana Fontalba
%A Leandro Soriano-Guill¨¦n
%A Jos¨¦ M Garc¨ªa-Sagredo
%A Sixto Garc¨ªa-Mi£¿aur
%A Berta Rodr¨ªguez
%A Saioa Juaristi
%A Carmen Garc¨ªa-Pardos
%A Antonio Mart¨ªnez-Peinado
%A Jos¨¦ M Mill¨¢n
%A Ana Medeira
%A Oana Moldovan
%A Angeles Fernandez
%A Lourdes Loidi
%J BMC Medical Genetics
%D 2011
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2350-12-116
%X Forty three affected individuals from 36 non related families were analyzed. For the genetic analysis, the PHEX gene was sequenced in all of the patients and in 13 cases the study was complemented by mRNA sequencing and Multiple Ligation Probe Assay. For the genotype-phenotype correlation study, the clinical and biochemical phenotype of the patients was compared with the type of mutation, which was grouped into clearly deleterious or likely causative, using the Mann-Whitney and Fisher's exact test.Mutations in the PHEX gene were identified in all the patients thus confirming an XLHR. Thirty four different mutations were found distributed throughout the gene with higher density at the 3' end. The majority of the mutations were novel (69.4%), most of them resulted in a truncated PHEX protein (83.3%) and were family specific (88.9%). Tubular reabsorption of phosphate (TRP) and 1,25(OH)2D serum levels were significantly lower in patients carrying clearly deleterious mutations than in patients carrying likely causative ones (61.39 ¡À 19.76 vs. 80.14 ¡À 8.80%, p = 0.028 and 40.93 ¡À 30.73 vs. 78.46 ¡À 36.27 pg/ml, p = 0.013).PHEX gene mutations were found in all the HR cases analyzed, which was in contrast with other cohort studies. Patients with clearly deleterious PHEX mutations had lower TRP and 1,25(OH)2D levels suggesting that the PHEX type of mutation might predict the XLHR phenotype severity.Genetic Hypophosphatemic Rickets (HR) is a group of diseases characterized by renal phosphate wasting, with inappropriately low or normal serum 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D) levels, causing growth retardation, rickets and osteomalacia. The most common form is X-linked dominant hypophosphatemic rickets (XLHR, OMIM 307800) with an incidence of 1/20,000 [1]. XLHR is caused by inactivating mutations in the PHEX gene (Phosphate Regulating Gene with Homologies to Endopeptidases on the ¡Á chromosome) which is located in Xp22.1-22.2 [2]. Singular cases are autosomal forms with a muc
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