Summary of DNA sequencing results. a) Pathogenic variants identified by DNA sequencing (cases 1–3). (Codon: a sequence of three nucleotides within DNA or messenger RNA that encodes for a specific amino acid; Frameshift mutation: a disruption of the reading frame used for translation from messenger RNA into amino acid by the insertion or deletion of a number of nucleotides that are a non-multiple of three into a group of codons; Stop codon: a tri-nucleotide sequence, or codon, within a messenger RNA which signals a termination of translation) b) Sequence variants identified by DNA sequencing (case 4). GenBank reference files: L33233 (PKD1 cDNA position), AAC37576 (PKD1 amino acid position), NM000297 (PKD2 cDNA position) and NP00288 (PKD2 amino acid position) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Genbank/).