Renal cancer and malformations in relatives of patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1977-1985

  Beales, Philip L ^a,b   Reid, Hugh A S ^c   Griffiths, Meryl H ^d   Maher, Eamonn R ^e   Flinter, Frances A ^b   Woolf, Adrian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHASE FARM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bardet Biedl syndrome; Loss of heterozygosity; Renal cell carcinoma; Renal malformations

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH DISORDER; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PARENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIBLING; STEM CELL; UNITED KINGDOM; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION;

EID: 0033658359     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.12.1977     Document Type: Article

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