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Genetic heterogeneity in adult dominant polycystic kidney disease in Cypriot families.
Human genetics - 1 Apr 1995
Constantinou-Deltas C D, Papageorgiou E, Boteva K, Christodoulou K, Breuning M H, Peter D J, Pierides A
Abstract excerpt
Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited heterogeneous disorder that affects approximately 1:1000 Europeans. It is characterized mainly by the formation of cysts in the kidney that lead to end-stage renal failure with late age of onset. Three loci have been identified, PKD1 on the short arm of chromosome 16, which has recently been isolated and characterized, PKD2 on the long arm of chromosome 4, and a third...
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