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Lint: renal-cysts-and-diabetes-syndrome

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"Renal cysts and diabetes syndrome (RCAD), also known as maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 5 (MODY5), refers to the combination of renal cortical cysts and diabetes mellitus in patients with mutations in the HNF1B gene. When renal cysts are associated with these mutations without disturbances in glucose metabolism, the term HNF1B-associated kidney disease may be used."

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"The disorder, like other forms of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. De novo mutations occur in half of cases. The mutations, whether deletions or coding region/splicing mutations, result in haploinsufficiency of the HNF1B gene (also known as TCF2), which encodes the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 beta (HNF-1β) transcription factor."

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"The disorder, like other forms of maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. De novo mutations occur in half of cases. The mutations, whether deletions or coding region/splicing mutations, result in haploinsufficiency of the HNF1B gene (also known as TCF2), which encodes the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 beta (HNF-1β) transcription factor."

Line 6:278 · Italics should be used only in exceptional circumstances: '<em>HNF1B </em>gene (also known as <em>TCF2</em>'