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SUBMITTER: van der Zanden LFM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9552614 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Zanden Loes F M LFM Maj Carlo C Borisov Oleg O van Rooij Iris A L M IALM Quaedackers Josine S L T JSLT Steffens Martijn M Schierbaum Luca L Schneider Sophia S Waffenschmidt Lea L Kiemeney Lambertus A L M LALM de Wall Liesbeth L L LLL Heilmann Stefanie S Hofmann Aybike A Gehlen Jan J Schumacher Johannes J Szczepanska Maria M Taranta-Janusz Katarzyna K Kroll Pawel P Krzemien Grazyna G Szmigielska Agnieszka A Schreuder Michiel F MF Weber Stefanie S Zaniew Marcin M Roeleveld Nel N Reutter Heiko H Feitz Wout F J WFJ Hilger Alina C AC
Frontiers in pediatrics 20220927
Congenital lower urinary tract obstructions (LUTO) are most often caused by posterior urethral valves (PUV), a male limited anatomical obstruction of the urethra affecting 1 in 4,000 male live births. Little is known about the genetic background of PUV. Here, we report the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for PUV in 4 cohorts of patients and controls. The final meta-analysis included 756 patients and 4,823 ethnicity matched controls and comprised 5,754,208 variants that were genotype ...[more]