[Phenotypic heterogeneity of TCF2's gene mutation coding for HNF-1 beta in a single family]

Nephrol Ther. 2009 Jul;5(4):287-91. doi: 10.1016/j.nephro.2009.02.009. Epub 2009 Apr 1.
[Article in French]

Abstract

TCF2 gene's mutation of autosomal dominant inheritance, encoding for the HNF-1 beta transcription factor, is associated with monogenic Mody5 diabetes, renal structural and urogenital abnormalities, and hepatic cholestasis. We have identified a family with HNF-1 beta gene's mutation, and very different phenotypic expression: renal abnormalities with cysts, nephrocalcinosis, polyuropolydipsic syndrome, Mody5 diabetes, genital malformations. Molecular analysis identified a mutation of exon 4 of the TCF2 gene. The coexistence in the same family of pleiomorphic renal malformations (cysts, renal agenesia or hypoplasia, renal failure) with Mody-type diabetes, with an autosomal inheritance must lead to the search for a mutation of TCF2, one of the most frequent genetic renal diseases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics
  • Adult
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / genetics*
  • Exons
  • Female
  • Genetic Carrier Screening
  • Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature
  • Kidney / abnormalities
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Male
  • Mutation
  • Pedigree
  • Phenotype

Substances

  • HNF1B protein, human
  • Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta