From Nature, 8 March 2023:
Andrew Mallett was training to be a kidney specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Australia in 2011 when he met an 18-year-old man whose kidneys were on the verge of collapse. Struck by how unusual this condition was in an otherwise fit, healthy young person, Mallett asked if anyone else in the man’s family had kidney problems.
“It turned out his brother, who was three years younger, had a kidney transplant; his mum had had a kidney transplant, his uncle was on dialysis, and his grandmother had kidney disease, so there was this massive family history,” says Mallett, now a nephrologist at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. But the family and their physicians didn’t know what type of kidney disease they had. Read more (paywall).
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