Functional analysis of promoter mutations in the ACTN4 and SYNPO genes in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 824-835

  Dai, Shengchuan ^a   Wang, Zhaohui ^a   Pan, Xiaoxia ^a   Wang, Weiming ^a   Chen, Xiaonong ^a   Ren, Hong ^a   Hao, Cuilan ^a   Han, Bin ^b   Chen, Nan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

ACTN4; Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Mutation; Promoter; SYNPO

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALBUMIN; ALPHA ACTININ 4; CREATININE; GENOMIC DNA; LUCIFERASE; SYNAPTOPODIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PODOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA TRANSLATION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ACTININ; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PC12 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649221501     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp394     Document Type: Article

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