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Sang Heon Suh1, Su Hyun Song1, Hong Sang Choi1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Cystinuria is an autosomal recessively inherited genetic disorder, and is typically classified into type A, caused by mutations in SLC3A1, or type B, caused by mutations in SLC7A9. While the predominance of the genotypes varies among countries, due to lack of a large scale cohort, the characterization of mutations in SLC3A1 or SLC7A9 is still limited in East Asia. A 61-year-old male patient admitted to the department of nephrology, with a chief complaint of fever, chillness and left flank pain for a week. The patient had a past history of recurrent urolithiasis, with a frequency of at least 1 to 2 times a year. Computed tomography visualized 1 cm-sized stone at distal ureter, which was removed by retrograde ureteroscopy. The stone analysis documented 100% of cystine, indicating an underlying genetic disorder, cystinuria. Whole genome sequencing from peripheral blood unveiled 3 heterozygous missense mutations in coding exons of SLC3A1 gene, and 2 heterozygous missense mutations in coding exons of SLC7A9 gene. We here report a case of cystinuria with compound heterozygous mutations both in SLC3A1 and SLC7A9 genes, with a total of 5 mutant alleles in a patient.
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