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COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations link familial hematuria and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. glomerular epithelium destruction via basement membrane thinning?
Connective tissue research - 1 Jan 2008
Voskarides Konstantinos, Pierides Alkis, Deltas Constantinos
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The recent description of multiple gene defects in hereditary podocytopathies and in hereditary glomerular basement membrane diseases has dramatically improved the current state of our knowledge on the renal glomerular filtration barrier. Recently described mutations in collagen IV and laminin in patients with hematuria and severe nephrotic syndrome add to other experimental data supporting the hypothesis that...
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