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Rare inherited kidney diseases: an evolving field in Nephrology

J. bras. nefrol; 42 (2), 2020
Abstract There are more than 150 different rare genetic kidney diseases. They can be classified according to diagnostic findings as (i) disorders of growth and structure, (ii) glomerular diseases, (iii) tubular, and (iv) metabolic diseases. In recent years, there has been a shift of paradigm in this fiel...

How diseases became "genetic"

Abstract This article examines the origins of the term "genetic disease." In the late 19 and early 20th century, an earlier idea that diseases that occur in families reflect a vague familiar "predisposition" was replaced by the view that such diseases have specific causes, while Mendelian genetics provid...

Doenças genéticas raras com abordagem qualitativa: revisão integrativa da literatura nacional e internacional

Resumo Atualmente, há entre seis e oito mil adoecimentos catalogados por doenças raras, sendo que 80% são de origem genética e entre os estudos sobressaem os de natureza quantitativa e biomédica. Objetivou-se identificar e descrever as características dos estudos científicos, no Brasil e internaci...

Estudio inmunogenético de una familia cifosis juvenil de Scheuermann
Scheuermann's disease study immunogenetic in one family

Rev. mex. reumatol; 11 (6), 1996
La enfermedad de Scheuermann es una cifosis torácica baja que se desarrolla en la pubertad, de etiología desconocida y que parece tener un patrón de herencia dominante. Para estudiar la causa genética se reportan aquí los haplotipos presentes en una familia mestiza mexicana con enfermedad de Scheuer...

Incontinentia pigmenti: A propósito de un caso
Incontinentia pigmenti

Rev. méd. hered; 6 (3), 1995
Incontinentia Pigmenti is a rare X-linked multisystem neuroectodermic disorder with signs and symptonms related mainly to the dermatologic, dental, ocular and central nervous systems, and characterized by death in the majority of male embryos. Affected children do not appear sick, in spite of the skin er...