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Autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) in Ireland

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posted on 2019-09-11, 14:57 authored by S. Cormican, D. M. Connaughton, C. Kennedy, S. Murray, M. Živná, S. Kmoch, N. K. Fennelly, P. O’Kelly, K. A. Benson, E. T. Conlon, G. Cavalleri, C. Foley, B. Doyle, A. Dorman, M. A. Little, P. Lavin, K. Kidd, A. J. Bleyer, P. J. Conlon

Introduction: Autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease (ADTKD) is a rare genetic cause of renal impairment resulting from mutations in the MUC1, UMOD, HNF1B, REN, and SEC61A1 genes. Neither the national or global prevalence of these diseases has been determined. We aimed to establish a database of patients with ADTKD in Ireland and report the clinical and genetic characteristics of these families.

Methods: We identified patients via the Irish Kidney Gene Project and referral to the national renal genetics clinic in Beaumont Hospital who met the clinical criteria for ADTKD (chronic kidney disease, bland urinary sediment, and autosomal dominant inheritance). Eligible patients were then invited to undergo genetic testing by a variety of methods including panel-based testing, whole exome sequencing and, in five families who met the criteria for diagnosis of ADTKD but were negative for causal genetic mutations, we analyzed urinary cell smears for the presence of MUC1fs protein.

Results: We studied 54 individuals from 16 families. We identified mutations in the MUC1 gene in three families, UMOD in five families, HNF1beta in two families, and the presence of abnormal MUC1 protein in urine smears in three families (one of which was previously known to carry the genetic mutation). We were unable to identify a mutation in 4 families (3 of whom also tested negative for urinary MUC1fs).

Conclusions: There are 4443 people with ESRD in Ireland, 24 of whom are members of the cohort described herein. We observe that ADTKD represents at least 0.54% of Irish ESRD patients.

Funding

This work was supported by funding from the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund, Beaumont Nephrology Research Fund, a Meath Foundation grant [Grant no.:205229.13987] and SFI grant [Grant number: 11/Y/B2093). SC is currently supported by an academic training grant under the Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme, supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Health Research Board [Grant Number 203930/B/16/Z]. DMC is funded by the Health Research Board, Ireland [HPF-206–674], the International Pediatric Research Foundation Early Investigators’ Exchange Program, and the Amgen Irish Nephrology Society Specialist Registrar Research Bursary. MŽ and SK were supported by grant NV17-29786A from the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and by institutional programs of Charles University in Prague [UNCE/MED/007 and PROGRES-Q26/LF1] and they thank The National Centre for Medical Genomics [LM2015091] for help in DNA sequencing and bioinformatic support.

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