Next-generation sequencing for research and diagnostics in kidney disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 433-444

  Renkema, Kirsten Y ^a   Stokman, Marijn F ^a   Giles, Rachel H ^a   Knoers, Nine V A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC RESEARCH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEPHRONOPHTHISIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; DISCLOSURE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; TRPP CATION CHANNELS; URINARY TRACT; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 84905108362     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2014.95     Document Type: Review

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