Review of genetic testing in kidney disease patients: diagnostic yield of single nucleotide variants and copy number variations evaluated across and within kidney …

LR Claus, R Snoek, NVAM Knoers… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic kidney disease comprises a diverse group of disorders. These can roughly be
divided in the phenotype groups congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract …

Long read sequencing on its way to the routine diagnostics of genetic diseases

G Olivucci, E Iovino, G Innella, D Turchetti… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The clinical application of technological progress in the identification of DNA alterations has
always led to improvements of diagnostic yields in genetic medicine. At chromosome side …

Individuals heterozygous for ALG8 protein-truncating variants are at increased risk of a mild cystic kidney disease

B Apple, G Sartori, B Moore, K Chintam, G Singh… - Kidney international, 2023 - Elsevier
ALG8 protein-truncating variants (PTVs) have previously been described in patients with
polycystic liver disease and in some cases cystic kidney disease. Given a lack of well …

[HTML][HTML] Biallelic inheritance of hypomorphic PKD1 variants is highly prevalent in very early onset polycystic kidney disease

M Durkie, J Chong, MK Valluru, PC Harris… - Genetics in Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the prevalence of biallelic PKD1 and PKD2 variants underlying very
early onset (VEO) polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in a large international pediatric cohort …

[HTML][HTML] The genetics of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD)

P Goggolidou, T Richards - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
ARPKD is a genetically inherited kidney disease that manifests by bilateral enlargement of
cystic kidneys and liver fibrosis. It shows a range of severity, with 30% of individuals dying …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging role of clinical genetics in CKD

P Devarajan, GM Chertow, K Susztak, A Levin… - Kidney Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) afflicts 15% of adults in the United States, of whom 25% have
a family history. Genetic testing is supportive in identifying and possibly confirming …

Cystic Kidney Diseases in Children and Adults: Differences and Gaps in Clinical Management

C Hanna, IA Iliuta, W Besse, D Mekahli… - Seminars in nephrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cystic kidney diseases, when broadly defined, have a wide differential diagnosis extending
from recessive diseases with a prenatal or pediatric diagnosis, to the most common …

[HTML][HTML] Genomics integration into nephrology practice

FP e Vairo, C Prochnow, JL Kemppainen, EC Lisi… - Kidney Medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale & Objective The etiology of kidney disease remains unknown in many individuals
with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We created the Mayo Clinic Nephrology Genomics …

Molecular Diagnosis and Identification of Novel Pathogenic Variants in a Large Cohort of Italian Patients Affected by Polycystic Kidney Diseases

E Nigro, M Amicone, D D'Arco, G Sellitti, O De Marco… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polycystic Kidney Diseases (PKDs) consist of a genetically and phenotypically
heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by numerous renal cysts. PKDs …

A practical guide to genetic testing for kidney disorders of unknown etiology

AW Aron, NK Dahl, W Besse - Kidney360, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Genetic testing is increasingly used in the workup and diagnosis of kidney disease and
kidney-related disorders of undetermined cause. Out-of-pocket costs for clinical genetic …