Abstract
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is characterized by dilation of collecting ducts and by biliary dysgenesis and is an important cause of renal- and liver-related morbidity and mortality. Genetic analysis of a rat with recessive polycystic kidney disease revealed an orthologous relationship between the rat locus and the ARPKD region in humans; a candidate gene was identified. A mutation was characterized in the rat and screening the 66 coding exons of the human ortholog (PKHD1) in 14 probands with ARPKD revealed 6 truncating and 12 missense mutations; 8 of the affected individuals were compound heterozygotes. The PKHD1 transcript, approximately 16 kb long, is expressed in adult and fetal kidney, liver and pancreas and is predicted to encode a large novel protein, fibrocystin, with multiple copies of a domain shared with plexins and transcription factors. Fibrocystin may be a receptor protein that acts in collecting-duct and biliary differentiation.
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We thank the patients and their families for taking part in the study, M. El Youssef, J. Gloor, E.N. Haugen, P.S. Kamath and B.Z. Morgenstern for referring patients, and P. Fraught, M. de Andrade and E.J. Atkinson for assistance. Charles River Japan are thanked for the gift of the breeding pairs of PCK rats. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the PKD Foundation (to S.R. and M.H.), the Mayo Graduate School and Foundation, Mayo Cancer Center and the Wellcome Trust.
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Ward, C., Hogan, M., Rossetti, S. et al. The gene mutated in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease encodes a large, receptor-like protein. Nat Genet 30, 259–269 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng833
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