Liver-restricted deletion of the biliary atresia candidate gene Pkd1l1 causes bile duct dysmorphogenesis and ciliopathy

DJ Hellen, A Bennett, S Malla, C Klindt, A Rao… - Hepatology, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions: Bile duct ligation of the Pkd1l1-deficient mouse model mirrors several aspects
of the intrahepatic pathophysiology of biliary atresia in humans including bile duct …

Pkd1l1-deficiency drives biliary atresia through ciliary dysfunction in biliary epithelial cells

YZ Lim, M Zhu, Y Wang, T Sharma, S Kelley… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Syndromic biliary atresia is a cholangiopathy characterized by fibro-
obliterative changes in the extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) and congenital malformations …

Utility of fetal whole exome sequencing in the etiological evaluation and outcome of nonimmune hydrops fetalis

ARE Correa, K Naini, P Mishra, V Dadhwal… - Prenatal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) has varied etiology. We assessed the
etiological spectrum and evaluated the utility of fetal whole exome sequencing (fWES) for …

Spectrum of genetic variants in a cohort of 37 laterality defect cases

D Antony, E Gulec Yilmaz, A Gezdirici, L Slagter… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Laterality defects are defined by the perturbed left–right arrangement of organs in the body,
occurring in a syndromal or isolated fashion. In humans, primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is …

A novel nonsense PKD1L1 variant cause heterotaxy syndrome with congenital asplenia in a Han Chinese patient

H Gu, ZZ Yuan, XH Xie, YF Yang, ZP Tan - Journal of Human Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Heterotaxy syndrome is a very rare congenital disease, which is caused by the disorder of
left-right asymmetry during visceral development. However, pathogenic genetic lesions are …

Identifying Novel Causes of X-Linked Heterotaxy

JR Wells - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Heterotaxy is a congenital disorder characterized by abnormal arrangement of formation of
thoracic and abdominal organs due to errors in embryonic left-right patterning, affecting~ 1 …