Characterization of a large Lebanese family segregating IgA nephropathy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 772-777

  Karnib, Hussein H ^a,b   Sanna Cherchi, Simone ^b   Zalloua, Pierre A ^a   Medawar, Walid ^a   D'Agati, Vivette D ^b   Lifton, Richard P ^c   Badr, Kamal ^a   Gharavi, Ali G ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial aggregation; IgA nephropathy; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMATURIA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEBANON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LEBANON; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33847629155     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl677     Document Type: Article

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