Prophylactic bilateral nephrectomies in two paediatric patients with missense mutations in the WT1 gene

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 223-226

  Hu, Min ^a   Zhang, Geoff Y ^a   Arbuckle, Susan ^b   Graf, Nicole ^b   Shun, Albert ^b   Silink, Martin ^b   Lewis, Deborah ^b   Alexander, Stephen I ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Denys Drash syndrome; Missense mutations; Nephrectomy; WT1

Indexed keywords

DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; WT1 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENYS DRASH SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GLOMERULOPATHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CHILD; DENYS-DRASH SYNDROME; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEPHRECTOMY; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0347917077     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfg473     Document Type: Article

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