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Association analysis of podocyte slit diaphragm genes as candidates for diabetic nephropathy.
Diabetologia - 1 Jan 2008
Ihalmo P, Wessman M, Kaunisto M A, Kilpikari R, Parkkonen M, Forsblom C, Holthöfer H, Groop P-H
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: The slit diaphragm is an adhesion and signalling protein complex linking the interdigitating podocyte foot processes in the kidney glomerulus, and mutations in slit diaphragm-associated genes result in severe proteinuria. Here we report a genetic association analysis of four slit diaphragm genes, LRRC7, KIRREL, NPHS2 and ACTN4, in a Finnish diabetic nephropathy cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A...
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