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ey0015.2-5 | Atypical forms of congenital hyperinsulinism are associated with increased expression of the transcription factor NKX2.2 and increased numbers of somatostain secreting cells | ESPEYB15

Atypical forms of congenital hyperinsulinism are associated with increased expression of the transcription factor NKX2.2 and increased numbers of somatostain secreting cells

B Han , Z Mohamed , MS Estebanez , RJ Craigie , M Newbould , E Cheesman , R Padidela , M Skae , M Johnson , S Flanagan , S Ellard , KE Cosgrove , I Banerjee , MJ Dunne

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2017 Sep 1;102(9):3261-3267At a histological level congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is classified into three forms, namely diffuse, focal and atypical. The atypical forms display histological mosacism (heterogeneous populations of islets, which appear to be resting or quiescent and localized to particular domains/lobes of the pancreas) but the m...

ey0020.13-8 | Section | ESPEYB20

13.8. Non-coding variants disrupting a tissue-specific regulatory element in HK1 cause congenital hyperinsulinism

MN Wakeling , NDL Owens , JR Hopkinson , MB Johnson , JAL Houghton , A Dastamani , CS Flaxman , RC Wyatt , TI Hewat , JJ Hopkins , TW Laver , R van Heugten , MN Weedon , E De Franco , KA Patel , S Ellard , NG Morgan , E Cheesman , I Banerjee , AT Hattersley , MJ Dunne , International Congenital Hyperinsulinism Consortium , SJ Richardson , SE Flanagan

In Brief: The authors performed whole genome sequencing on 135 patients with congenital hyperinsulinaemia (CHI) who had negative genetic testing for previously known CHI genes. They identified nine different non-coding de novo variants (carried by 14 probands) located in a regulatory region of HK1 intron 2 that co-segregated with disease in families.Comment: HK1 is a ‘disallowed gene’ in the liver and pancreatic beta cells. Th...