UMOD and the architecture of kidney disease.
Pflugers Arch
; 474(8): 771-781, 2022 08.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35881244
ABSTRACT
The identification of genetic factors associated with the risk, onset, and progression of kidney disease has the potential to provide mechanistic insights and therapeutic perspectives. In less than two decades, technological advances yielded a trove of information on the genetic architecture of chronic kidney disease. The spectrum of genetic influence ranges from (ultra)rare variants with large effect size, involved in Mendelian diseases, to common variants, often non-coding and with small effect size, which contribute to polygenic diseases. Here, we review the paradigm of UMOD, the gene coding for uromodulin, to illustrate how a kidney-specific protein of major physiological importance is involved in a spectrum of kidney disorders. This new field of investigation illustrates the importance of genetic variation in the pathogenesis and prognosis of disease, with therapeutic implications.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Renal Insufficiency, Chronic
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Kidney Diseases
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Pflugers Arch
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article