• So Young Park, Young Sil Eom, Byoungho Choi, Hyon-Seung Yi, Seung-Hee Yu, Kiyoung Lee, Hyun-Seok Jin, Yoon-Sok Chung, Tae Sik Jung, and Sihoon Lee.
• Department of Internal Medicine, Cheil General Hospital, Kwandong University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2013 Oct 1; 28 (10): 148914951489-95.

AbstractIsolated hypoparathyroidism (IH) shows heterogeneous phenotypes and can be caused by defects in a variety of genes. The goal of our study was to determine the clinical features and to analyze gene mutations in a large cohort of Korean patients with sporadic or familial IH. We recruited 23 patients. They showed a broad range of onset age and various values of biochemical data. Whole exome sequencing was performed on two affected cases and one unaffected individual in a family. All coding exons and exon-intron borders of GCMB, CASR, and prepro-PTH were sequenced using PCR-amplified DNA. In one family who underwent the whole exome sequencing analysis, approximately 300 single nucleotide changes emerged as candidates for genetic alteration. Among them, we identified a functional mutation in exon 2 of GCMB (C106R) in two affected cases. Besides, heterozygous gain-of-function mutations in the CASR gene were found in other subjects; D410E and P221L. We also found one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the prepro-PTH gene, five SNPs in the CASR gene, and four SNPs in the GCMB gene. The current study represents a variety of biochemical phenotypes in IH patients with the molecular genetic diagnosis of IH.

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