Yu Toyoda, Yusuke Kawamura, Akiyoshi Nakayama, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Toshihide Higashino, Seiko Shimizu, Hiroshi Ooyama, Keito Morimoto, Naohiro Uchida, Ryuichiro Shigesawa, Kenji Takeuchi, Ituro Inoue, Kimiyoshi Ichida, Hiroshi Suzuki, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Tappei Takada, Hirotaka Matsuo
OBJECTIVES: Gout, caused by chronic elevation of serum uric acid levels, is the commonest form of inflammatory arthritis. The causative effect of common and rare variants of ATP-binding cassette transporter G2 (ABCG2/BCRP) on gout risk has been studied, but, little attention has been paid to the effect of common (rs121907892, p. W258X) and rare variants of urate transporter 1 (URAT1/SLC22A12) on gout, despite dysfunctional variants of URAT1 having been identified as pathophysiological causes of renal hypouricemia...
April 2, 2021: Rheumatology