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Prevalence Estimates of Polycystic Kidney and Liver Disease by Population Sequencing.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Oct 2018
Lanktree Matthew B, Haghighi Amirreza, Guiard Elsa, Iliuta Ioan-Andrei, Song Xuewen, Harris Peter C, Paterson Andrew D, Pei York
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BACKGROUND: Estimating the prevalence of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is challenging because of age-dependent penetrance and incomplete clinical ascertainment. Early studies estimated the lifetime risk of ADPKD to be about one per 1000 in the general population, whereas recent epidemiologic studies report a point prevalence of three to five cases per 10,000 in the general population....
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