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Frasier syndrome: early gonadoblastoma and cyclosporine responsiveness.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Oct 2010
Sinha Aditi, Sharma Sonika, Gulati Ashima, Sharma Alok, Agarwala Sandeep, Hari Pankaj, Bagga Arvind
Abstract excerpt
Frasier syndrome is characterized by progressive glomerulopathy that is unresponsive to corticosteroids, male pseudohermaphroditism, and an increased risk of genitourinary tumors. Of 21 girls with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome secondary to focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) who were screened for mutations in the WT1 gene, two showed Frasier syndrome. Both patients had donor splice-site mutations in...
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