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Denys-Drash syndrome
MIM.194080
Wednesday 11 February 2004
Ent. 1967
Synospsis
diffuse mesangial sclerosis (DMS)
male sex reversal (male pseudohermaphrosim)
Etiology
constitutional punctual mutations in the WT1 gene (zing-fingers)
References
Management of Wilms tumors in Drash and Frasier syndromes. Auber F, Jeanpierre C, Denamur E, Jaubert F, Schleiermacher G, Patte C, Cabrol S, Leverger G, Nihoul-Fékété C, Sarnacki S. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Jan;52(1):55-9. PMID: 18816692
Case report: WT1 exon 6 truncation mutation and ambiguous genitalia in a patient with Denys-Drash syndrome. Chiang PW, Aliaga S, Travers S, Spector E, Tsai AC. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2008 Feb;20(1):103-6. PMID: 18197048