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Endoplasmic reticulum stress and monogenic kidney diseases in precision nephrology.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Sept 2019
Park Sun-Ji, Kim Yeawon, Chen Ying Maggie
Abstract excerpt
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in recent years has led to a rapid discovery of novel or rare genetic variants in human kidney cell genes, which is transforming the risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney disease. Mutations may lead to protein misfolding, disruption of protein trafficking, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention. An imbalance between the load of misfolded proteins and...
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