Authors
Simone Sanna-Cherchi, Kamal Khan, Rik Westland, Priya Krithivasan, Lorraine Fievet, Hila Milo Rasouly, Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Valentina P Capone, David A Fasel, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Sitharthan Kamalakaran, Monica Bodria, Edgar A Otto, Matthew G Sampson, Christopher E Gillies, Virginia Vega-Warner, Katarina Vukojevic, Igor Pediaditakis, Gabriel S Makar, Adele Mitrotti, Miguel Verbitsky, Jeremiah Martino, Qingxue Liu, Young-Ji Na, Vinicio Goj, Gianluigi Ardissino, Maddalena Gigante, Loreto Gesualdo, Magdalena Janezcko, Marcin Zaniew, Cathy Lee Mendelsohn, Shirlee Shril, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Joanna AE van Wijk, Adela Arapovic, Marijan Saraga, Landino Allegri, Claudia Izzi, Francesco Scolari, Velibor Tasic, Gian Marco Ghiggeri, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Anna Materna-Kiryluk, Shrikant Mane, David B Goldstein, Richard P Lifton, Nicholas Katsanis, Erica E Davis, Ali G Gharavi
Publication date
2017/11/2
Journal
The American Journal of Human Genetics
Volume
101
Issue
5
Pages
789-802
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Renal agenesis and hypodysplasia (RHD) are major causes of pediatric chronic kidney disease and are highly genetically heterogeneous. We conducted whole-exome sequencing in 202 case subjects with RHD and identified diagnostic mutations in genes known to be associated with RHD in 7/202 case subjects. In an additional affected individual with RHD and a congenital heart defect, we found a homozygous loss-of-function (LOF) variant in SLIT3, recapitulating phenotypes reported with Slit3 inactivation in the mouse. To identify genes associated with RHD, we performed an exome-wide association study with 195 unresolved case subjects and 6,905 control subjects. The top signal resided in GREB1L, a gene implicated previously in Hoxb1 and Shha signaling in zebrafish. The significance of the association, which was p=2.0 × 10−5 for novel LOF, increased to p=4.1 × 10−6 for LOF and deleterious missense …
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