Novel mutations in NPHP4 in a consanguineous family with histological findings of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.

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Nephronophthisis is a form of autosomal recessive hereditary cystic kidney disease that typically progresses to end-stage renal disease by early adulthood. Conversely, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis is a histological glomerular phenotype that can be familial, primary (idiopathic), or secondary to a multitude of pathological processes affecting the kidney, including such tubulointerstitial diseases as...

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