Thirty-two subjects with a clinical phenotype of MODY have been further evaluated for large deletions using MLPA.
Mutations in HNF1B have been increasingly recognized as a cause of MODY and can be identified using MLPA analysis.
Diabetes is similar to that found in transcription-factor MODY, but renal alterations are hallmarks of HNF1B mutations.
A whole-gene HNF1B deletion was found in one patient with diabetes mellitus and rapidly progressing renal failure.
We describe the first case of HNF1B-MODY in a Brazilian patient.