Lara De Tomasi, Pierre David, Camille Humbert, Flora Silbermann, Christelle Arrondel, Frédéric Tores, Stéphane Fouquet, Audrey Desgrange, Olivier Niel, Christine Bole-Feysot, Patrick Nitschké, Joëlle Roume, Marie-Pierre Cordier, Christine Pietrement, Bertrand Isidor, Philippe Khau Van Kien, Marie Gonzales, Marie-Hélène Saint-Frison, Jelena Martinovic, Robert Novo, Juliette Piard, Christelle Cabrol, Ishwar C Verma, Ratna Puri, Hubert Journel, Jacqueline Aziza, Laurent Gavard, Marie-Hélène Said-Menthon, Laurence Heidet, Sophie Saunier, Cécile Jeanpierre
Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) constitute a major cause of chronic kidney disease in children and 20% of prenatally detected anomalies. CAKUT encompass a spectrum of developmental kidney defects, including renal agenesis, hypoplasia, and cystic and non-cystic dysplasia. More than 50 genes have been reported as mutated in CAKUT-affected case subjects. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to bilateral kidney agenesis (BKA) remain largely elusive. Whole-exome or targeted exome sequencing of 183 unrelated familial and/or severe CAKUT-affected case subjects, including 54 fetuses with BKA, led to the identification of 16 heterozygous variants in GREB1L (growth regulation by estrogen in breast cancer 1-like), a gene reported as a target of retinoic acid signaling...
November 2, 2017: American Journal of Human Genetics