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Association of BMPR1A polymorphism, but not BMP4, with kidney size in full-term newborns

BACKGROUND: A correlation between renal mass and nephron number in newborns allows the use of total kidney volume at birth as a surrogate for congenital nephron number. As the bone morphogenetic protein type 4 (BMP4), and its receptor type 1A (BMPR1A, ALK3), play an important role in renal developme...

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Autores principales: Kaczmarczyk, Mariusz, Goracy, Iwona, Loniewska, Beata, Kuprjanowicz, Anna, Binczak-Kuleta, Agnieszka, Clark, Jeremy S., Ciechanowicz, Andrzej
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22886282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00467-012-2277-7