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Allelic variants of complement genes associated with dense deposit disease.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Aug 2011
Abrera-Abeleda Maria Asuncion, Nishimura Carla, Frees Kathy, Jones Michael, Maga Tara, Katz Louis M, Zhang Yuzhou, Smith Richard J H
Abstract excerpt
The alternative pathway of the complement cascade plays a role in the pathogenesis of dense deposit disease (DDD). Deficiency of complement factor H and mutations in CFH associate with the development of DDD, but it is unknown whether allelic variants in other complement genes also associate with this disease. We studied patients with DDD and identified previously unreported sequence alterations in several genes...
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