The approach should be individualized to each patient, says Dr. David Charytan of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Here's why. (3:28) Before receiving a kidney transplant, patients with autosomal ...

Autosomal inheritance is when a parent passes down a condition to a child via autosomes, a type of chromosome. In autosomal inheritance, a copy of a faulty gene from one parent can cause a condition ...

Critical Path Institute (C-Path) is thrilled to announce its Polycystic Kidney Disease Outcomes Consortium (PKDOC) has been awarded an Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease (ADTKD) ...

Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot as it should. Usually, people have VWD due to their genes, which may come from a male or female parent. Blood ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

Credit: istockphoto Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease progresses to kidney failure faster in Hispanic patients than in those of other races or ethnicities, a study found. Onset of end-stage ...