High Prevalence of Albuminuria Among African-Americans With Short Duration of Diabetes
High Prevalence of Albuminuria Among African-Americans With Short Duration of Diabetes
复制标题
糖尿病病程较短的非洲裔美国人中蛋白尿患病率很高
作者:
L. Thaler;I. El;D. Ziemer;D. Gallina;V. Dunbar;L. Phillips
These two conditions are considered variants of the same defect of the stimulatory guanine nucleotide-binding (Gs) protein of adenylate cyclase, which is necessary for parathyroid hormone and other hormones such as gonadotropin, beta-adrenergic agonist, and thyrotropin to use cAMP as an intracellular second messenger. We described two related women with apparent AHO and late-onset diabetes. Both patients had normal serum calcium levels, normal parathyroid hormone levels, and the characteristic somatic features of short stature, round face, obesity, and shortened fourth and fifth metacarpals and metatarsals, consistent with pseudo-PHP Both disorders, PHP and pseudo-PHP, can occur within the same family, and there is accumulating evidence that genomic imprinting is involved in the disease (1). Full phenotypic expression (AHO and parathyroid hormone resistance, as in PHP type la) occurs in maternally transmitted cases, whereas partial expression (AHO without parathyroid hormone resistance, as in pseudo-PHP) occurs when the gene is paternally transmitted. The pedigree of our patients showed genetic transmission from their father. Patients with type 2 diabetes have defects in insulin action, abnormal insulin secretion, and increased hepatic glucose production. Although precise pathways responsible for these defects have not been thoroughly identified, they are likely to be genetically heterogenous with mutations in several different genes that are able to cause hyperglycemia. Some reported genetic loci for type 2 diabetes have been mapped on chromosome 20q, chromosome 7p, chromosome 12q, chromosome 2, and so forth (2,3). In most cases of AHO, reduced levels of Gs protein a subunit (Gsa protein) have been found. A number of deactivating mutations in the gene for Gsa protein located on chromosome 20ql3 have been described for this disorder (1), but del(2)(q37) has also been described in some AHO patients (4) and thus explains the heterogeneity observed in this AHO disorder. PHP type la or pseudo-PHP is assumed to be a Gsa protein problem and this protein is encoded by chromosome 20ql3. 2-3. Occasionally, these disorders may be associated with resistance of diverse target tissues to hormones and neurotransmitters whose actions require stimulation of adenylate cyclase and thus open calcium channels. It should be considered whether this Gsa protein problem will lead to diabetes with insulin resistance. Certainly, either these pseudo-PHP women with type 2 diabetes have a mutation in the Gsa protein or nearby genome for its susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, or they represent just a phenomenon of coincidence. Further evaluation and collection of cases are necessary to define the possible role and interrelationship of pseudo-PHP and type 2 diabetes.
DOI:
10.1002/ajmg.1320580102
发表时间:
1995
期刊:
American journal of medical genetics
影响因子:
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作者:
Phelan,MC;Rogers,RC;Clarkson,KB;Bowyer,FP;Levine,MA;Estabrooks,LL;Severson,MC;Dobyns,WB
通讯作者:
Dobyns,WB