title: Salt-wasting congenital adrenal hyperplasia: genotypical peculiarities in a Sicilian ethnic group.
abstract: Here we report for the first time the results of the molecular study of 17 unrelated patients with salt-wasting (SW) congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) belonging to a Sicilian ethnic group, as corroborated by patients' pedigree taken to include 2 generations in the paternal and maternal lineage. The aim of this report was to confirm that genetic basis of CAH may be characterized by population differences. In our series, the overall predominant mutation was IVS2A/C>G, that was detected in 50% of alleles and in 58.8% of patients. The allelic and homozygous frequencies of IVS2A/C>G, Del8bpE3, and R356W mutations were significantly higher in our series than in other populations. Our study population included 2 cases with 2 different mutations that have been recently reported for the first time, 3 cases with a double mutation on the same allele, and 1 case with homozygous de novo mutation. We concluded that: a) in a Sicilian ethnic group the most frequent genotype in SW CAH is IVS2A/C>G homozygocity; b) surprisingly Del8bpE3 and R256W homozygocity are also well represented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Messina, Messina, Italy. wasniewska@yahoo.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wasniewska
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Indovina
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Crisafulli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mirabelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salzano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arrigo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Luca
mesh_terms: D000312:Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital / Q000097:blood / Q000208:ethnology / Q000235:genetics*; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D017354:Point Mutation; D012802:Sicily; D012964:Sodium / Q000097:blood*; D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary; D013255:Steroid 21-Hydroxylase / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary; D012964:Sodium; C531510:CYP21A2 protein, human; D013255:Steroid 21-Hydroxylase
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