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The patient was a 45-year-old male with end-stage renal disease secondary to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease who received an HLA-matched renal allograft from a living, related donor: his younger brother. During the pretransplant workup, a nonsense mutation (c.4609 G ?> ?T, p.Glu1537X) in exon 15 of the polycystin-1 gene, PKD1, was identified in the patient, whereas targeted PKD1 sequence analysis of the donor was negative for mutation [1].
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Pinsky, B.A. (2011). BK Virus. In: Schrijver, I. (eds) Diagnostic Molecular Pathology in Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19677-5_39
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