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. 2022 Mar 24;53(4):297–306. doi: 10.1159/000522226

Table 2.

Positive genes

Gene Associated conditions Positive results, n Inheritance pattern Kidney disease category*
ABCC8 Familial hyperinsulinemia hypoglycemia, diabetes mellitus 1 AD/AR T, G, D, H
ADCY10 Absorptive hypercalciuria 1 AD T
ALPL Hypophosphatasia 1 AD/AR T
APOL1 Susceptibility to end-stage renal disease; focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 4 57 Complex G
ATP6V0A4 Renal tubular acidosis, distal 1 AR T
ATP6V1B1 Renal tubular acidosis with deafness 1 AR T
AVPR2 Diabetes insipidus, nephrogenic 1 XL T
BBS1 Bardet-Biedl syndrome 2 AR CS, CTI
CASR Hypocalcemia; familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia with transient neonatal hyperparathyroidism 1 AD/AR T
CD2AP Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 2 AD/AR G
CFI Hemolytic uremic syndrome, atypical; complement factor I deficiency 3 AD/AR CR
COL11A1 Stickler syndrome 2 AD CS?
COL4A1 HANAC 2 AD CTI
COL4A3 Alport syndrome, COL4A3-related 13 AD/AR G
COL4A4 Alport syndrome, COL4A4-related 14 AD/AR G
COL4A5 Alport syndrome, X-linked 24 XL G
CUBN Megaloblastic anemia 1, Finnish type 1 AR G
CYP24A1 Familial hypercalcemia 2 AR T
GANAB Polycystic kidney and/or polycystic liver disease 3 1 AD CTI
HBB Beta-hemoglobinopathies (HbSC disease) 1 AD/AR G, T
HNF1A Diabetes mellitus; maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 3 1 AD/AR CTI
HNF1B Renal cysts and diabetes syndrome 1 AD CTI, CS, D
HNF4A Fanconi renotubular syndrome 4, with maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 1 2 AD G, D
INF2 Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 5; Charcot-Marie-tooth disease E 3 AD G
KCNJ11 Congenital hyperinsulinism; permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus 2 AD/AR G, D
MC4R Obesity risk 1 AD/AR D, H
MEFV Familial Mediterranean fever 1 AR G
NPHS2 Nephrotic syndrome, type 2 2 AR G
NR3C2 Pseudohypoaldosteronism type I, autosomal dominant hypertension, early-onset 1 AD T, H
OFD1 Joubert syndrome, type 10; orofaciodigital syndrome I; Golabi-Behmel syndrome, type 2 1 XL CTI
PAX2 Isolated renal hypoplasia; papillorenal syndrome; focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 7 1 AD CS, G
PBX1 CAKUTHED 1 AD CS
PKD1 Polycystic kidney disease 1 75 AD CTI
PKD1/TSC2 gene deletion Polycystic kidney disease 1/tuberous sclerosis contiguous gene deletion 1 AD CTI
PKD2 Polycystic kidney disease 2 22 AD CTI
PKHD1 Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease 2 AR CTI
PRKCSH Polycystic liver disease 1 1 AD CTI
PTPN11 Noonan syndrome 1 1 AD CS
SLC12A3 Gitelman syndrome 3 AR T
SLC34A1 Fanconi renotubular syndrome 2; hypercalcemia, infantile, 2; nephrolithiasis/ osteoporosis, hypophosphatemic, 1 1 AD/AR T
SLC3A1 Cystinuria 4 AD/AR T
SLC4A1 Renal tubular acidosis, distal 1 AD/AR T
SLC7A9 Cystinuria 1 AD/AR T
SMAD9 Pulmonary hypertension, primary 2 1 AD T, H
TSC2 Tuberous sclerosis 2 1 AD CTI
TTR Amyloidosis, hereditary, transthyretin-related 9 AD G
UMOD Medullary cystic kidney disease 2; hyperuricemic nephropathy; glomerulocystic kidney disease 2 AD CTI
VHL Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome 1 AD CTI
WNK4 Pseudohypoaldosteronism, type 2B 2 AD T
WT1 Denys-Drash syndrome; Frasier syndrome; nephrotic syndrome, type 4 1 AD CS, G

HANAC, hereditary angiopathy with nephropathy, aneurysms, and muscle cramps; CAKUTHED, congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract syndrome with or without hearing loss, abnormal ears, or developmental delay.

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Kidney disease categories: CTI, cystic and tubulointerstitial disorders; G, glomerular disorders; CR, complement-related kidney disorders; CS, congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) and structural disorders; T, tubulopathy and tubular disorders (tubular ion transport, nephrolithiasis, cystinuria, nephrogenic diabetes); D, diabetes-related; H, hypertension-related.