Author Archives: Iqra Mumal, PhD

COL4A5 and LAMA5 Mutations May Explain Range of Symptoms in Family with Hereditary Hematuric Disease, Study Shows

Mutations in two genes — COL4A5 and LAMA5 — can explain the range in severity of symptoms experienced by a family of patients with hereditary hematuric (blood in the urine) disease. The study, titled “COL4A5 and LAMA5 variants co-inherited in familial hematuria: digenic inheritance or genetic modifier effect?” was published in the journal BMC…