Enhance the diagnosis of hereditary renal diseases in pediatric field in China / 北京大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

More and more hereditary diseases, including hereditary renal diseases in particular, have been diagnosed withthe achievement of the Human Genome Project in the last decade and the development of biotechnology. The in-creased diagnosis of hereditary diseases as well as hereditary renal diseases appeared not only in case numbers butalso in disease categories. Some hereditary renal diseases thatare considered to be rare previously nowbecome rela-tively common, because there have been much more approaches for diagnosis, such as renal pathology, biochemis-try, imaging, and genetic diagnoses.