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    Alport syndrome is a genetic disorder affecting around 1 in 5,000–10,000 children, characterized by glomerulonephritis, end-stage kidney disease, and...
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  • males. Mutations to the genes[COL4A5] coding for collagen IV lead to Alport syndrome. This will cause thinning and splitting of the glomerular basement...
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    Epstein syndrome was first discovered in 1972 when two families had similar symptoms to Alport syndrome. Epstein syndrome and other Alport-like disorders...
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    exhibit signs similar to Usher syndrome, including Alport syndrome, Alström syndrome, Bardet–Biedl syndrome, Cockayne syndrome, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia...
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  • impairment should prompt a search for hereditary nephritis such as Alport syndrome.[citation needed] The molecular basis for thin basement membrane disease...
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    nephrotic syndrome. This form of glomerulonephritis may be associated with conditions such as HIV and heroin abuse, or inherited as Alport syndrome. The cause...
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  • syndrome Lenticonus posterior; lenticonus posterior is more common than lenticonus anterior and is sometimes found in Lowe syndrome Alport syndrome mostly...
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    X-linked hypophosphatemia Rett syndrome (95% of cases are due to sporadic mutations) Fragile-X Syndrome Most cases of Alport syndrome Incontinentia pigmenti Giuffrè–Tsukahara...
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    syndrome is caused by a different mutation. For example, the vascular type (vEDS) of this disorder is caused by a mutation in collagen type 3. Alport...
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  • mental retardation syndrome Alport syndrome Alström syndrome Alvarez' syndrome Amniotic band constriction Amotivational syndrome Amplified musculoskeletal...
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    and eventually death. Alport syndrome; glomerulonephritis, endstage kidney disease, and hearing loss. A minority of Alport syndrome cases are due to an...
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  • tissue. Stickler syndrome - autosomal dominant disorder distinguished by skeletal, ocular, and orofacial abnormalities. Alport syndrome - hereditary kidney...
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    causes of isolated hematuria include thin basement membrane disease and Alport syndrome, the latter being a hereditary disease associated with hearing impairment...
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  • genetic disorders and hereditary diseases has been verified, including: Alport syndrome Colorectal cancer due to hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer...
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  • with Alport syndrome, craniosynostosis, dwarfism, Down syndrome, Parry–Romberg syndrome, Marfan syndrome, mucolipidosis, Frank–ter Haar syndrome, crouzon...
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    Fechtner syndrome is a variant of Alport syndrome characterized by leukocyte inclusions, macrothrombocytopenia,thrombocytopenia, nephritis, and sensorineural...
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    Samoyed breed of dog. The disease has been shown to be a model for Alport syndrome in humans in that the disease resembles that of the human disease....
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  • Arthur Cecil Alport, M.D. (1880–1959) was a South African physician who first identified the Alport syndrome in a British family in 1927. After graduating...
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    basement membranes. Mutations in this gene are associated with X-linked Alport syndrome, also known as hereditary nephritis. Like the other members of the...
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  • encoding long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase 4, is deleted in a family with Alport syndrome, elliptocytosis, and mental retardation". Genomics. 47 (3): 350–358...
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  • retardation syndrome Alport syndrome Alport syndrome, dominant type Alport syndrome macrothrombocytopenia Alport syndrome, recessive type Alstrom's syndrome Alternating...
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    PS (2003). "Cyclosporine A Slows the Progressive Renal Disease of Alport Syndrome (X-Linked Hereditary Nephritis): Results from a Canine Model". Journal...
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    the collagen fibers of the basement membrane, including Alport syndrome and Knobloch syndrome Autoimmune diseases targeting basement membranes. Non-collagenous...
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    glomerulonephritis Membranous nephropathy Minimal change disease Sarcoidosis Alport syndrome Diabetes mellitus (diabetic nephropathy) Drugs (e.g. NSAIDs, nicotine...
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    well as rare skeletal syndromes such as Bruck syndrome, hypophosphatasia, geroderma osteodysplasticum, and Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.: 1513 : 253–256  Various...
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  • RV, Turner S, Ledbetter DH, Martin CL (1993). "17q12 Recurrent Deletion Syndrome". In Adam MP, Ardinger HH, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Bean LJ, Stephens K, Amemiya...
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    besides albinism include aniridia, retinopathy of prematurity, and Alport syndrome. Macular hypoplasia occurs the most in people that have a diagnosis...
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  • Manchester, England Alport syndrome, a genetic disorder Arthur Cecil Alport, the discoverer of Alport syndrome Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport, a British politician...
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    Green's medical problems with anxiety and major hearing loss due to Alport syndrome. Green plays without any type of cymbals, instead replacing the usual...
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  • the third of four siblings, who were all sisters. He was born with Alport syndrome, a genetic disorder and kidney disease, which he lived with throughout...
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