Article
Mutation in alpha 5(IV) collagen chain gene in nonfamilial hematuria.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Aug 1995
Kitagawa K, Nakanishi K, Iijima K, Nishio H, Sado Y, Sano K, Nakamura H, Yoshikawa N
Abstract excerpt
Alport syndrome is an inherited disorder characterized by progressive nephritis with ultrastructural basket-weave changes of the glomerular basement membrane and neurosensory deafness. Mutations in the COL4A5 gene encoding the Type IV collagen alpha 5 chain have been reported to occur in patients with X-linked Alport syndrome. A girl with hematuric nephritis, characteristic basket-weave glomerular basement...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Basement Membrane
- Child
- Collagen
- DNA
- Exons
- Female
- Hematuria
- Humans
- Kidney Glomerulus
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
