Clinical Utility of Genetic Testing in Children and Adults with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome

Santín, Sheila; Bullich, Gemma; Tazón‐Vega, Bárbara; García‐Maset, Rafael; Giménez, Isabel; Silva, Irene; Ruíz, Patricia; Ballarín, José; Torrá, Roser; Ars, Elisabet

doi:10.2215/cjn.05260610

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Clinical Utility of Genetic Testing in Children and Adults with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome

Published in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology • Mar 18, 2011

Authors:

Sheila Santín

Gemma Bullich

Bárbara Tazón‐Vega

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The increasing number of podocyte-expressed genes implicated in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS), the phenotypic variability, and the uncharacterized relative frequency of mutations in these genes in pediatric and adult patients with SRNS complicate their routin...

Subject

Medicine

Congenital nephrotic syndrome

Nephrotic syndrome

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