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Patients with Goodpasture's disease have two normal COL4A3 alleles encoding the NC1 domain of the type IV collagen alpha 3 chain.
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association - 1 Aug 2004
Persson Ulf, Hertz Jens Michael, Carlsson Malin, Hellmark Thomas, Juncker Inger, Wieslander Jörgen, Segelmark Mårten
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BACKGROUND: Goodpasture's disease (GP) is a rare but severe disease characterized by anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies, rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and lung haemorrhage. The autoantibodies are restricted to a narrow epitope region on the NC1 domain of the alpha 3 chain of ty...
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