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Id2 haploinsufficiency in mice leads to congenital hydronephrosis resembling that in humans.
Genes to cells : devoted to molecular & cellular mechanisms - 1 Dec 2004
Aoki Yoshitaka, Mori Seiichi, Kitajima Kazuhito, Yokoyama Osamu, Kanamaru Hiroshi, Okada Kenichiro, Yokota Yoshifumi
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Congenital hydronephrosis is one of the most common anomalies found in humans and may cause renal failure in childhood. Half of the cases are due to obstruction at the ureteropelvic junction (UPJ). Here we report that mice lacking Id2, an inhibitor of basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription f...
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