Estimating prevalence in single-gene kidney diseases progressing to renal failure.

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Incidence and prevalence, the measures of "frequency, " are often confused. While in a nonhereditary situation, the useful parameter is the incidence rate, evaluating the impact of an etiologic factor, it is prevalence that is considered useful in a hereditary disease. Prevalence may concern either the whole population or a fraction of this population, that is, males or females or individuals at a given age, for...

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