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JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 426-430Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1007/s100380170062
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pseudohypoparathyroidism Ia (PHP-Ia); Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) parathyroid hormone (PTH); hypothyroidism; Gs alpha gene; deletion mutation
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Pseudohypoparathyroidism Ia (PHP-Ia), is an inherited disease with clinical hypoparathyroidism caused by parathyroid hormone resistance (PTH), and shows the phenotype of Albright hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO), including short stature, obesity, round face, brachydactyly, and subcutaneous ossification. This disease is caused by mutation that inactivates the alpha -subunit of Gs, the stimulatory regulator of adenylyl cyclase. Here, a novel frameshift mutation (delG at codon 88) in exon 4, and a missense mutation (R231H) in exon 9 of the Gs alpha gene were identified in two Japanese patients with sporadic PHP-Ia. Deletion of a G in exon 4 at codon 88 in the first patient produced a premature stop codon, resulting in the truncated protein. The second patient had a previously reported R231H mutation. Because this amino acid is located in a region, switch 2, that is thought to interact with the beta gamma subunit of Gs alpha protein, this mutation may impair Gs protein function. We report here one novel Gs alpha mutation, and note that mutations in Japanese patients with PHP-Ia are probably heterogeneous.
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