ESPE Abstracts

Background: Hereditary hypophosphatemia (HH), is a rare condition related to decreased renal tubular phosphate reabsorption. Although X-linked hypophosphatemia (PHEX mutation) is the most frequent cause of HH, recent advances in the next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques enable the identification of various genetic etiologies. Our study aims to determine the molecular etiology of patients with hypophosphatemia and to identify new candidate genes....

Background: Primary hypoparathyroidism (HP) is a rare disease characterized by hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia and low/inappropriately normal parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. We aim to characterize the clinical findings and molecular aetiology of childhood HP in our cohort.Method: DiGeorge-VCFS FISH analysis was performed on all patients (n=28) as the initial step after the diagnosis. In whom, FISH analysis was...

Background: Raine Syndrome (RS) is characterized by hypophosphatemia and typical facial dysmorphic features. Subperiostal thickening and diffuse generalized osteosclerosis are the most common radiological findings. Biallelic loss of function mutations in FAM20Cgene cause RS and by reduction of the transcription of DMP1 leads to FGF23-related hypophosphatemia. Here we present a new case with RS.Case: A 9-month-ol...

Background: Congenital lactase deficiency (CLD) occurs as a result of loss of function of intestinal lactase-phlorizin hydrolase (LPH) encoded by LCT gene. Patients usually present with osmotic diarrhea in the first few days of life. Although the exact mechanism is not known, hypercalcemia is a common feature of CLD; with calcium levels up to 14 mg/dl and nephrocalcinosis have been reported. However, CLD is frequently overlooked in the differential diagnosis o...

Keywords: children, primary osteoporosis, next-generation sequencingBackground: Primary osteoporosis (POP) is a rare bone fragility disorder of childhood and is mainly related to osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). However, patients without clinical OI features with recurrent long bone and/or vertebral fractures who comply with the osteoporosis criteria are considered to have non-OI POP. Diagnosis and classification of non-OI ...

Background: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have improved our knowledge about the genetic basis of congenital hypothyroidism (CH). The objective of our study was to evaluate the molecular genetic etiology in our primary CH cohort by using the NGS-based panel.Subjects and Methods: The clinical and genetic characteristics of 147 patients (61 female) from 129 unrelated families were evaluated. The patients wer...