A Japanese family with ferroportin disease caused by a novel mutation of SLC40A1 gene: hyperferritinemia associated with a relatively low transferrin saturation of iron

Intern Med. 2005 Sep;44(9):990-3. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.990.

Abstract

Ferroportin disease, autosomal-dominant reticuloendothelial iron overload, may be more prevalent than hemochromatosis in Japan. Hyperferritinemia of 822 ng/ml with 24.8% transferrin saturation of iron was incidentally noted in a 43-year-old man. His iron overload was selective in Kupffer cells of the liver. Subsequently, his father was found to have asymptomatic hyperferritinemia of 2,283 ng/ml with 62.1% saturation. These affected subjects were heterozygous for 1467A>C (R489S) in SLC40A1, and without other mutations of the hemochromatosis genes. Here, we report a Japanese family with ferroportin disease, characterized by hyperferritinemia with relatively low transferrin saturations of iron.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Base Sequence
  • Cation Transport Proteins / genetics*
  • DNA / genetics
  • Female
  • Ferritins / blood*
  • Hemochromatosis / blood
  • Hemochromatosis / genetics
  • Hemochromatosis / pathology
  • Heterozygote
  • Humans
  • Iron / blood*
  • Iron Overload / blood*
  • Iron Overload / genetics*
  • Iron Overload / pathology
  • Japan
  • Kupffer Cells / metabolism
  • Kupffer Cells / pathology
  • Liver / metabolism
  • Liver / pathology
  • Male
  • Mutation, Missense*
  • Transferrin / metabolism*

Substances

  • Cation Transport Proteins
  • Transferrin
  • metal transporting protein 1
  • DNA
  • Ferritins
  • Iron