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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Pediatr. 2015 Apr;27(2):212–218. doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000000187

Table 1.

Cilia-associated Human Cystic Kidney Disease Genes and Clinical Features

Disease Gene(s) Clinical features
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) PKD1
PKD2
  • Renal cysts (all nephron segments)

  • Hepatic, pancreatic and seminal vesicle cysts

  • Aortic and cerebral aneurysms

  • Intestinal diverticuli

Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD) PKHD1
  • Renal cysts (collecting tubule)

  • Congenital hepatic fibrosis

Juvenile Nephronophthisis (JN) NPHP 1-11
GLIS2
NEK8
CEP164
TMEM67
TTC21B
WDR19
ZNF423
ANKS6
CEP83
  • Renal cysts (corticomedullary)

  • Ocular changes (e.g. Senior-Loken syndrome/Retinitis pigmentosa, variable, based on gene)

  • Congenital hepatic fibrosis (variable based on gene)

  • Situs inversus (variable based on gene)

Joubert syndrome (with renal disease, JS-Ren) RPGRIP1L
CC2D2A
CEP290
NPHP1
AHI1
TMEM216
TMEM138
TMEM237
OFD1
  • Renal cysts

  • Hypotonia

  • Developmental delays

  • Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia

  • Retinal disease (variable)

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) BBS 1-12
MKS1
MKS3
CEP290
SDCCAG8 SEPT7
  • Renal cysts

  • Cognitive delays

  • Truncal obesity

  • Postaxial polydactyly

Oro-facial digital syndrome type I (OFD1) OFD1
  • Renal cysts

  • Polydactyly, syndactyly

  • Cleft lip/palate

  • Dental abnormalities

  • CNS abnormalities (e.g. agenesis of the corpus colloasum)

  • Developmental delays

Jeune syndrome/Short rib thoracic dysplasia IFT80
IFT 140
DYNC2H1
TTC21B
WDR19
WDR60
NEK1
  • Renal cysts

  • Long, narrow thorax

  • Short stature

  • Retinitis pigmentosa

  • Congenital hepatic fibrosis

  • Polydactyly (variable)

Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MGS) MKS1-11
CEP290
NPHP3
RPGRIP1L
CC2D2A
TCTN2
B9D1
B9D2
TMEM67
TMEM216
TMEM231
  • Renal cysts

  • Occipital encephalocele and other CNS malformations

  • Postaxial polydactyly

  • Bile duct proliferation and dilatation

Generated from information provided by Gene Reviews® (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1116) and OMIM (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim). Accessed November 9, 2014.