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SUBMITTER: Kestila M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1918269 | biostudies-other | 1994 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kestilä M M Männikkö M M Holmberg C C Gyapay G G Weissenbach J J Savolainen E R ER Peltonen L L Tryggvason K K
American journal of human genetics 19940501 5
Congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type (CNF) is an autosomal recessive disease that is characterized by massive proteinuria and nephrotic syndrome at birth. CNF represents a unique, apparently specific dysfunction of the renal basement membranes, and the estimated incidence of CNF in the isolated population of Finland is 1 in 8,000 newborns. The basic defect is unknown, and no specific biochemical defect or chromosomal aberrations have been described. Here we report the assignment of ...[more]