title: Infundibulopelvic stenosis, multicystic kidney, and calyectasis in a kindred: clinical observations and genetic analysis.
abstract: Congenital obstructive anomalies of the urinary tract usually occur sporadically. We describe inheritance in a three-generation kindred of a spectrum of kidney anomalies consistent with an autosomal-dominant mode of transmission, with incomplete penetrance, calyectasis (maternal grandmother), infundibulopelvic stenosis (uncle), and multicystic kidney (male proband, age 4 years). The proband's mother, father and half sister had normal renal imaging studies. Inheritance of informative polymorphic markers (3'-HVR, GGG1, GGG9, SM-7, KG8, and CW3) mapping close to the adult polycystic kidney disease type 1 (PKD-1) and tuberous sclerosis (TSC-2) loci on chromosome 16p was evaluated by Southern blot studies and by PCR-based, fluorescent genotyping for linkage to phenotype. The 3 affected individuals, as well as the unaffected mother (obligate carrier) and unaffected half-sister, inherit a common chromosome haplotype linked to the PKD1 locus. Our findings support the hypothesis that these anomalies may be part of a spectrum of obstructive renal dysplasia which are inherited as a simple Mendelian trait exhibiting an autosomal-dominant mode of transmission with variable expression and incomplete penetrance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Bellah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sartore
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rappaport
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Steele
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mansfield
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gasparini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Surrey
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fortina
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010375:Pedigree; D010641:Phenotype; D016891:Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction