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Current insights into renal ciliopathies: what can genetics teach us?
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jun 2013
Arts Heleen H, Knoers Nine V A M
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Ciliopathies are a group of clinically and genetically overlapping disorders whose etiologies lie in defective cilia. These are antenna-like organelles on the apical surface of numerous cell types in a variety of tissues and organs, the kidney included. Cilia play essential roles during development and tissue homeostasis, and their dysfunction in the kidney has been associated with renal cyst formation and renal...
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