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Familial Juvenile Hyperuricemic Nephropathy and Autosomal Dominant Medullary Cystic Kidney Disease Type 2
1 Nov 2001
Abstract excerpt
Familial juvenile hyperuricemic nephropathy (FJHN) is an autosomal dominant disorder heralded by hyperuricemia during childhood; it is characterized by chronic interstitial nephritis, with marked thickening of tubular basement membranes, and leads to progressive renal failure during adulthood. A gene for FJHN in two Czech families was recently mapped to chromosome 16p11.2, close to the MCKD2 locus, which is...
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