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ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2011

Ciliopathies: an expanding disease spectrum.

Aoife M Waters, Philip L Beales

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Review in Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 411 papers.

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411citing papers in PubMed
20.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

411 citing papers in PubMed, 689 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Identification of New Ciliary Signaling Pathways in the Brain and Insights into Neurological Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aoife M WatersDepartment of Nephro-Urology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, WC1N 3JH, UK. a.waters@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Philip L Beales
University College London · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0802138Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ciliopathies comprise a group of disorders associated with genetic mutations encoding defective proteins, which result in either abnormal formation or function of cilia. As cilia are a component of almost all vertebrate cells, cilia dysfunction can manifest as a constellation of features that include characteristically, retinal degeneration, renal disease and cerebral anomalies. Additional manifestations include congenital fibrocystic diseases of the liver, diabetes, obesity and skeletal dysplasias. Ciliopathic features have been associated with mutations in over 40 genes to date. However, with over 1,000 polypeptides currently identified within the ciliary proteome, several other disorders associated with this constellation of clinical features will likely be ascribed to mutations in other ciliary genes. The mechanisms underlying many of the disease phenotypes associated with ciliary dysfunction have yet to be fully elucidated. Several elegant studies have crucially demonstrated the dynamic ciliary localisation of components of the Hedgehog and Wnt signalling pathways during signal transduction. Given the critical role of the cilium in transducing "outside-in" signals, it is not surprising therefore, that the disease phenotypes consequent to ciliary dysfunction are a manifestation of aberrant signal transduction. Further investigation is now needed to explore the developmental and physiological roles of aberrant signal transduction in the manifestation of ciliopathy phenotypes. Utilisation of conditional and inducible murine models to delete or overexpress individual ciliary genes in a spatiotemporal and organ/cell-specific manner should help clarify some of the functional roles of ciliary proteins in the manifestation of phenotypic features.

Indexed as

CiliaCiliary Motility DisordersKidney DiseasesLiver DiseasesRetinal DiseasesAnimalsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansMutationPhenotypeSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID21210154
PMCPMC3098370
OpenAlexW2077712321

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