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Arginine vasopressin

The AVP gene encodes the antidiuretic hormone, arginine vasopressin, which is secreted by the posterior pituitary. Mutaions cause autosomal dominant central diabetes insipidus.

Genetests:

Clinic Method Carrier testing
Turnaround 5 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Massive parallel sequencing
Turnaround 25 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Genomic sequencing of the entire coding region
Turnaround 5 days
Specimen type genomic DNA
Clinic Method Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
Turnaround 20 days
Specimen type genomic DNA

Related Diseases:

Central diabetes insipidus
AVP

References:

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Bahnsen U et al. (1992) A missense mutation in the vasopressin-neurophysin precursor gene cosegregates with human autosomal dominant neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus.

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Ito M et al. (1991) A single base substitution in the coding region for neurophysin II associated with familial central diabetes insipidus.

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Ito M et al. (1993) Possible involvement of inefficient cleavage of preprovasopressin by signal peptidase as a cause for familial central diabetes insipidus.

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Orphanet article

Orphanet ID 118943 external link
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NCBI article

NCBI 551 external link
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OMIM.ORG article

Omim 192340 external link
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Wikipedia article

Wikipedia EN (Vasopressin) external link
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