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Prenatal diagnosis of congenital chloride diarrhea by whole exome sequencing in four Chinese families and prenatal genotype–phenotype association study

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the family members of the patients for their cooperation.

Funding

This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81873594).

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  1. Renji College of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

    Ying-Fei Shao

  2. Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Qingdao Municipal Hospital of Qingdao University, No.5 Donghai Middle Road, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Ying-Fei Shao, Le-Ping Shao & Sai Wang

  3. Laboratory of Renal Disease, Qingdao, China

    Ying-Fei Shao & Le-Ping Shao

  4. Department of Nephrology, Eighth People’s Hospital of Qingdao, Qingdao, China

    Hong Wang

  5. Darpartment of Hepatic Surgery, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Yi-Xiu Wang

  6. Department of Dermatology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China

    Sai Wang

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SYF: conceptualization, data curation, writing–original draft; WH: investigation, visualization. WYX: methodology, software. SLP: funding acquisition, project administration, writing–review and editing. WS: supervision, resources, writing–review and editing.

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Shao, YF., Wang, H., Wang, YX. et al. Prenatal diagnosis of congenital chloride diarrhea by whole exome sequencing in four Chinese families and prenatal genotype–phenotype association study. World J Pediatr 19, 200–207 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12519-022-00634-1

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