Friederike Petzold, Katy Billot, Xiaoyi Chen, Charline Henry, Emilie Filhol, Yoann Martin, Marina Avramescu, Maxime Douillet, Vincent Morinière, Pauline Krug, Cécile Jeanpierre, Kalman Tory, Olivia Boyer, Anita Burgun, Aude Servais, Remi Salomon, Alexandre Benmerah, Laurence Heidet, Nicolas Garcelon, Corinne Antignac, Mohamad Zaidan, Sophie Saunier
Nephronophthisis (NPH) is an autosomal-recessive ciliopathy representing one of the most frequent causes of kidney failure in childhood characterized by a broad clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Applied to one of the worldwide largest cohorts of patients with NPH, genetic analysis encompassing targeted and whole exome sequencing identified disease-causing variants in 600 patients from 496 families with a detection rate of 71%. Of 788 pathogenic variants, 40 known ciliopathy genes were identified. However, the majority of patients (53%) bore biallelic pathogenic variants in NPHP1...
May 23, 2023: Kidney International