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SUBMITTER: Zhou W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3412140 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Nature genetics 20120708 8
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a major health burden. Its central feature of renal fibrosis is not well understood. By exome sequencing, we identified mutations in FAN1 as a cause of karyomegalic interstitial nephritis (KIN), a disorder that serves as a model for renal fibrosis. Renal histology in KIN is indistinguishable from that of nephronophthisis, except for the presence of karyomegaly. The FAN1 protein has nuclease activity and acts in DNA interstrand cross-link (ICL) repair withi ...[more]