Identification of GDNF gene sequence variations in patients with medullary sponge kidney disease

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1205-1210

  Torregrossa, Rossella ^a   Anglani, Franca ^a   Fabris, Antonia ^b   Gozzini, Alessia ^c   Tanini, Annalisa ^c   Del Prete, Dorella ^a   Cristofaro, Rosalba ^a   Artifoni, Lina ^a   Abaterusso, Cataldo ^b   Marchionna, Nicola ^b   Lupo, Antonio ^b   D'Angelo, Angela ^a   Gambaro, Giovanni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital of Florence ^*  (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PAIRED BOX 2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN RET; RET PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GDNF GENE; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RET GENE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; ITALY; MALE; METABOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; ITALY; MALE; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77954800012     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.07551009     Document Type: Article

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