Common variants of the glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor gene do not influence kidney size of the healthy newborn

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1151-1157

  Zhang, Zhao ^a   Quinlan, Jackie ^a   Grote, David ^b   Lemire, Mathieu ^c   Hudson, Thomas ^c   Benjamin, Alice ^d   Roy, Anne ^d   Pascuet, Elena ^a   Goodyer, Meigan ^a   Raju, Chandhana ^a   Houghton, Fiona ^a   Bouchard, Maxime ^b   Goodyer, Paul ^a,e  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Glial cell derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF); Haplotype map of the human genome (HapMap); Nephron number; Renal hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CYSTATIN C; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BODY SURFACE; CAUCASIAN; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GDNF GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; CYSTATIN C; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; NEPHRONS; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 67650283803     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-1097-2     Document Type: Article

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