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Familial juvenile nephronophthisis (NPH) is an autosomal recessive interstitial nephritis leading to terminal renal failure around puberty. Associations with extrarenal symptoms have been reported, mainly with Leber amaurosis (termed Senior-Løken syndrome). By means of linkage analysis a gene NPH1 for the purely renal form of NPH has been localized to chromosome 2. Genetic heterogeneity has been shown between NPH and Senior-Løken syndrome and also within the group of isolated NPH cases. Further characterization of the NPH1 region led to the isolation of large homozygous deletions in approximately 70% of patients with NPH. The detection of these deletions by PCR represents a simple noninvasive method for precise diagnosis in the majority of patients suspected of having NPH.
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Received: 23 April 1997 / Accepted: 9 October 1997
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Konrad, M., Saunier, S., Calado, J. et al. Familial juvenile nephronophthisis. J Mol Med 76, 310–316 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090050222
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