2001
DOI: 10.1086/318188
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Bilineal Disease and Trans-Heterozygotes in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

Abstract: In searching for a putative third gene for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), we studied the genetic inheritance of a large family (NFL10) previously excluded from linkage to both the PKD1 locus and the PKD2 locus. We screened 48 members of the NFL10 pedigree, by ultrasonography, and genotyped them, with informative markers, at both the PKD1 locus and the PKD2 locus. Twenty-eight of 48 individuals assessed were affected with ADPKD. Inspection of the haplotypes of these individuals suggested … Show more

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“…Specifically, the risk of disease in the offspring of an affected spousal pair is increased from 50% to 75%, with one in four children expected to be more severely affected from carrying two mutant alleles. 21 Although bilineal disease may be obvious from the family history, this was not the case in TOR87. When a family history of ADPKD is apparent, the spouse of an affected subject, who may be affected with a mild form of the disease, is rarely screened.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Specifically, the risk of disease in the offspring of an affected spousal pair is increased from 50% to 75%, with one in four children expected to be more severely affected from carrying two mutant alleles. 21 Although bilineal disease may be obvious from the family history, this was not the case in TOR87. When a family history of ADPKD is apparent, the spouse of an affected subject, who may be affected with a mild form of the disease, is rarely screened.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Should this be the case, a threshold model for polycystin 2 within individual epithelial cells of patients with such mutations may provide an additional mechanism for the cystogenic process. Under this model, individual cells with low levels of a functional polycystin may be triggered into a cystogenic pathway by local stresses and other stochastic factors (36,37). Alternatively, it is possible that the above observation may be spurious, given the borderline statistical association and the presence of a significant "modifier effect" (see below).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Significant interfamilial phenotypic differences have been described, and clinically mild PKD1 families documented (22)(23)(24). Furthermore, it has been suggested that the location of the PKD2 mutation influences the clinical outcome (25).…”
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