Urinary renal epithelial cells can be used for NPHP1 phenotyping and a personalized therapeutic strategy.

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Nephronophthisis (NPHP) is a recessive tubulointerstitial nephropathy and a leading genetic cause of kidney failure in children and young adults. The most common genetic cause is a homozygous deletion of NPHP1, which encodes nephrocystin-1, a protein essential for primary cilium structure and cell junctions. Using personalized medicine and deep phenotyping, we investigated a family with three siblings carrying a...

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