The molecular physiology of uric acid homeostasis

AK Mandal, DB Mount - Annual review of physiology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Uric acid, generated from the metabolism of purines, has proven and emerging roles in
human disease. Serum uric acid is determined by production and the net balance of …

The epidemiology and genetics of hyperuricemia and gout across major racial groups: a literature review and population genetics secondary database analysis

F Butler, A Alghubayshi, Y Roman - Journal of personalized medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gout is an inflammatory condition caused by elevated serum urate (SU), a condition known
as hyperuricemia (HU). Genetic variations, including single nucleotide polymorphisms …

The genetics of hyperuricaemia and gout

AM Reginato, DB Mount, I Yang, HK Choi - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Gout is a common and very painful inflammatory arthritis caused by hyperuricaemia. This
Review provides an update on the genetics of hyperuricaemia and gout, including findings …

Gout: a review of nonmodifiable and modifiable risk factors

LA MacFarlane, SC Kim - Rheumatic Disease Clinics, 2014 - rheumatic.theclinics.com
Gout is one of the most common inflammatory arthritides, caused by hyperuricemia, with an
increasing prevalence. Hyperuricemia is often a consequence of renal underexcretion of …

The genetic basis of hyperuricaemia and gout

TR Merriman, N Dalbeth - Joint Bone Spine, 2011 - Elsevier
Gout results from elevated urate concentrations in the blood (hyperuricaemia). When super-
saturation of urate is reached, monosodium urate crystals form within the joint. In some …

A strong role for the ABCG2 gene in susceptibility to gout in New Zealand Pacific Island and Caucasian, but not Māori, case and control sample sets

AJ Phipps-Green, JE Hollis-Moffatt… - Human molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Genetic variation in ABCG2 (rs2231142, Q141K), encoding a uric acid transporter, is
associated with gout in diverse populations. The aim of this study was to examine a role for …

Evaluation of the Influence of Genetic Variants of SLC2A9 (GLUT9) and SLC22A12 (URAT1) on the Development of Hyperuricemia and Gout

K Pavelcova, J Bohata, M Pavlikova… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urate transporters, which are located in the kidneys, significantly affect the level of uric acid
in the body. We looked at genetic variants of genes encoding the major reabsorption …

Recent advances in renal urate transport: characterization of candidate transporters indicated by genome-wide association studies

N Anzai, P Jutabha… - Clinical and …, 2012 - Springer
Humans have higher serum uric acid levels than other mammalian species owing to the
genetic silencing of the hepatic enzyme uricase that metabolizes uric acid into allantoin …

[HTML][HTML] Genotype-based changes in serum uric acid affect blood pressure

A Parsa, E Brown, MR Weir, JC Fink, AR Shuldiner… - Kidney international, 2012 - Elsevier
Elevated serum levels of uric acid consistently correlate with hypertension, but the
directionality of the association remains debated. To help define this relationship, we used a …

Hyperuricemia, gout and the kidney

T Gibson - Current opinion in rheumatology, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Renal tubular handling of uric acid is dependent on tubular transporters, one of which is
GLUT9. Mutations of its gene SLC2A9 are associated with aberrations of uric acid disposal …