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High prevalence of pathogenic variants in Japanese children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome without edema detected by urine screening program

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The authors would like to thank MARUZEN-YUSHODO Co., Ltd. for the English language editing.

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SF has received Grants-in-Aid for research of Saitama Children’s Medical Center (2021-B-3).

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Saitama Children’s Medical Center, 1-2 Shintoshin, Chuo-Ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 330-8777, Japan

    Shuichiro Fujinaga & Koji Sakuraya

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Correspondence to Shuichiro Fujinaga.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Research Committee and/or National Research Committee at which the study was conducted with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committee of Saitama Children’s Medical Center approved this study (approval number 2022–04-007).

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Fujinaga, S., Sakuraya, K. High prevalence of pathogenic variants in Japanese children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome without edema detected by urine screening program. Pediatr Nephrol 38, 1693–1694 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-022-05863-0

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