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Nephropathic cystinosis, an autosomal recessive disorder resulting from defective lysosomal transport of cystine, is the most common inherited cause of renal Fanconi syndrome. The cystinosis gene has been mapped to chromosome 17p13. We found that the locus D17S829 was homozygously deleted in 23 out of 70 patients, and identified a novel gene, CTNS, which mapped to the deletion interval. CTNS encodes an integral membrane protein, cystinosin, with features of a lysosomal membrane protein. Eleven different mutations, all predicted to cause loss of function of the protein, were found to segregate with the disorder.
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Town, M., Jean, G., Cherqui, S. et al. A novel gene encoding an integral membrane protein is mutated in nephropathic cystinosis. Nat Genet 18, 319–324 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0498-319
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