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Alport retinopathy results from "severe" COL4A5 mutations and predicts early renal failure.
Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - 1 Jan 2010
Tan Rachel, Colville Deb, Wang Yan Yan, Rigby Lin, Savige Judy
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Previous studies of X-linked Alport syndrome demonstrated that "severe" COL4A5 mutations (large deletions and rearrangements, nonsense and frame-shift mutations, and glycine substitutions in the carboxy-terminal residues) were associated with early-onset renal failure, hearing loss, and lenticonus in affected male patients. This study examined whether severe mutations also resulted in...
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