Discordant clinicopathological features in monozygotic twins with IgA nephropathy

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4146-4148

  Tsuboi, Nobuo ^a   Kawamura, Tetsuya ^a   Okonogi, Hideo ^a   Ishii, Takeo ^a   Utsunomiya, Yasunori ^a   Hosoya, Tatsuo ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

epigenetic difference; genetic factors; identical twins; IgA nephropathy

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; LISINOPRIL; LOSARTAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PROTEINURIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255185472     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr519     Document Type: Article

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