RGD Reference Report - Identification of two novel frameshift mutations in the KCNJ11 gene in two Italian patients affected by Congenital Hyperinsulinism of Infancy. - Rat Genome Database

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Identification of two novel frameshift mutations in the KCNJ11 gene in two Italian patients affected by Congenital Hyperinsulinism of Infancy.

Authors: Biagiotti, Laura  Proverbio, Maria Carla  Bosio, Laura  Gervasi, Fabio  Rovida, Ermanna  Cerioni, Valeria  Bove, Maddalena  Valin, Paola Sogno  Albarello, Luca  Zamproni, Ilaria  Grassi, Stefano  Doglioni, Claudio  Mora, Stefano  Chiumello, Giuseppe  Biunno, Ida 
Citation: Biagiotti L, etal., Exp Mol Pathol. 2007 Aug;83(1):59-64. Epub 2007 Jan 17.
RGD ID: 12743643
Pubmed: PMID:17316607   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.yexmp.2006.11.006   (Journal Full-text)

Congenital Hyperinsulinism of Infancy (CHI) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by profound hypoglycemia related to inappropriate insulin secretion. Two histopathologically and genetically distinct groups are recognized among patients with CHI due to ATP-sensitive potassium channel (KATP) defects: a diffuse type (Di-CHI), which involves the whole pancreas, and a focal form (Fo-CHI), which shows adenomatous islet-cell hyperplasia of a particular area within the normal pancreas. The beta-cell KATP channel consists of two essential subunits: Kir6.2 encoded by the KCNJ11 gene which is the pore-forming unit and belongs to the inwardly rectifying potassium channel family, and SUR1 (sulfonylurea receptor 1) encoded by the ABCC8 gene, which belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family. The KATP channel is an octameric complex of four Kir6.2 and four SUR1 subunits. More than one hundred mutations have been found in KATP channel genes ABCC8 and KCNJ11, but to date only twenty mutations have been identified in KCNJ11, most of them are missense mutations and only one is a single base deletion. The Fo-CHI has been demonstrated to arise in individuals who have a germline mutation in the paternal allele of ABCC8 or KCNJ11 in addition to a somatic loss of the maternally derived chromosome region 11p15 in adenomatous pancreatic beta-cells, while Di-CHI predominantly arises from the autosomal recessive inheritance of KATP channel gene mutations. Here we describe the molecular findings in nine children who presented, in the neonatal period, with signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia and diagnosed affected by CHI according to international diagnostic criteria. Direct sequencing of the complete coding exon and promoter region of KCNJ11 gene showed, in two Italian patients, two new heterozygous mutations which result in the appearance of premature translation termination codons resulting in the premature end of Kir6.2. Interestingly most of the CHI mutations detected in other population studies are situated in the ABCC8 gene.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Congenital Hyperinsulinism  IAGP 12743643DNA:deletion and insertion:exonRGD 
Congenital Hyperinsulinism  ISOKCNJ11 (Homo sapiens)12743643; 12743643DNA:deletion and insertion:exonRGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Kcnj11  (potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 11)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Kcnj11  (potassium inwardly rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 11)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
KCNJ11  (potassium inwardly rectifying channel subfamily J member 11)


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