Type-IV collagen related diseases.

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Alport syndrome (ATS) is a progressive inherited glomerulonephritis accounting for 1-2% of all patients who start renal replacement therapy, with an estimated gene frequency of approximately 1 in 5000. ATS is a genetically heterogeneous disease, commonly inherited as an X-linked semi-dominant trait, caused by mutations in COL4A5, on the X-chromosome, and only rarely (less than 10% of cases) caused by the COL4A3...

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