A rare familiar case of hereditary bisalbuminemia and diabetic predisposition: a possible predictive link?
We present a case report of hereditary bisalbuminemia in an Italian family with three affected members. Bisalbuminemia represents a genetic variant of the albumin, it will then be permanent, or acquired and then be transient. It is characterized by the presence of two albumin bands in electrophoresis: the first band with the same mobility of the normal albumin, the second band with a fast variable or a slow variable. The double band of albumin was detected fortuitously on a routine analytical study of an adult woman who was referred to our laboratory with an increase of fasting glucose value, this originated the study of the rest of the members of the family. Finally, it is like the genetic peculiarity of this family core show a possible predictive link between bisalbuminemia on one hand and the predisposition to type II diabetes mellitus on the other hand. As a result of such high probability we are eager to continue further search at our medicine predictive centre.
Bellomo
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Department of Sciences of the Aging, University of Studies in Rome La Sapienza, Viale del Policlinico, 00161 Roma, Italy. billsd@libero.it
Mancinella
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M
Troisi
G
G
Marigliano
V
V
D000368:Aged; D000418:Albumins; D001796:Blood Protein Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000235:genetics*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans
D000418:Albumins; C030764:bisalbumins