The importance of non-invasive genetic analysis in the initial diagnostics of Alport syndrome in young patients.

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Alport syndrome is an important hereditary disorder characterized by nephritis and sometimes accompanied by impairment or loss of vision and hearing. The most common form of Alport syndrome is an X-linked dominant trait that has been associated with the gene COL4A5, one of the six types of IV collagen genes. More than 300 different mutations have been identified in the COL4A5 gene, and appear randomly along the...

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