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SUBMITTER: Nagasawa Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4839700 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nagasawa Yasuyuki Y Okuzaki Daisuke D Muso Eri E Yamamoto Ryohei R Shinzawa Maki M Iwasaki Yukako Y Iwatani Hirotsugu H Nakanishi Takeshi T Isaka Yoshitaka Y Nojima Hiroshi H
PloS one 20160421 4
Diagnosis of chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN) depends primarily on renal biopsy, which is expensive and requires hospitalization, creating a demand for noninvasive diagnostic method for this disease. We used DNA microarray analysis to search for genes whose expression levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) could distinguish between patients with CGN and healthy volunteers (HVs). We selected immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) and membranous nephropathy (MN) as typical forms of CGN. ...[more]