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The C42R Mutation in the Kir6.2 (KCNJ11) Gene as a Cause of Transient Neonatal Diabetes, Childhood Diabetes, or Later-Onset, Apparently Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Departments of Pediatrics (T.Y., K.K., M.K., T.N.) and Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition (K.N., M.H., Y.Y., N.I.), Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan; Oishi Clinic (M.O.), Kyoto 612-0875, Japan; Diabetes Center (Y.A.), National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto 612-8555, Japan; and Department of Physiology (N.I.), Akita University School of Medicine, Akita 010-8543, Japan

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Tohru Yorifuji, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Shogoin Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. E-mail: yorif{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp.

Context: Known genes in maturity-onset diabetes of the young account for only a fraction of families with dominantly inherited diabetes in Japan. There should be as-yet-unidentified genes that account for the rest of the patients.

Objective: To identify and characterize the mutation responsible for a Japanese family with dominantly inherited diabetes mellitus.

Subjects: Members of a four-generation family with dominantly inherited diabetes mellitus observed in three generations. None of the patients in this family had permanent neonatal diabetes. One had transient neonatal diabetes, one had childhood diabetes, and the others had adult-onset diabetes without autoantibodies or insulin resistance.

Methods: Screening of the chromosomal location of the gene by a genome-wide linkage analysis followed by candidate gene sequencing. Confirmation of the functional significance of the identified mutation by the population survey and the physiological analysis.

Results: We identified a novel mutation (C42R) in the KCNJ11 gene coding for the Kir6.2 subunit of the pancreatic ATP-sensitive potassium channel. The patch-clamp experiments using the mutated KCNJ11 showed that the mutation causes increased spontaneous open probability and reduced ATP sensitivity. The effect, however, was partially compensated by the reduction of functional ATP-sensitive potassium channel expression at the cell surface, which could account for the milder phenotype of our patients.

Conclusions: These results broaden the spectrum of diabetes phenotypes caused by mutations of KCNJ11 and suggest that mutations in this gene should be taken into consideration for not only permanent neonatal diabetes but also other forms of diabetes with milder phenotypes and later onset.

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