Browsing by Author "Voskarides, Konstantinos"

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      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Voskarides, Konstantinos (2010)
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      C3 glomerulonephritis/CFHR5 nephropathy is an endemic disease in cyprus: Clinical and molecular findings in 21 families 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Gale, D.; Cook, T.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Pierides, Alkis M. (2013)
      Microscopic haematuria is the presenting symptom of several conditions, either heritable or acquired. A well-recognized familial condition is Alport syndrome, either of X-linked or autosomal recessive inheritance, as well ...
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      Carriers of Autosomal Recessive Alport Syndrome with Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy Presenting as Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Later Life 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Savva, Isavella; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Papazachariou, Louiza; Pierides, Alkis M. (2015)
      Collagen IV nephropathies (COL4Ns) comprise benign familial microscopic hematuria, thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN), X-linked Alport syndrome (AS) and also autosomal recessive and dominant AS. Apart from the ...
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      Clinico-pathological correlations in 127 patients in 11 large pedigrees, segregating one of three heterozygous mutations in the COL4A3 COL4A4 genes associated with familial haematuria and significant late progression to proteinuria and chronic kidney disease from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 

      Pierides, Alkis M.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Ioannou, Kyriakos; Damianou, Loukas; Arsali, Maria; Zavros, Michalis; Pierides, M.; Vargemezis, V.; Patsias, Charalambos; Zouvani, Ioanna; Elia, Avraam; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2009)
      Background. Heterozygous mutations in the COL4A3 COL4A4 genes are currently thought to be responsible for familial benign microscopic haematuria and maintenance of normal long-term kidney function.Methods. We report on 11 ...
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      CNVs-microRNAs interactions demonstrate unique characteristics in the human genome. An interspecies in silico analysis 

      Dweep, H.; Georgiou, G. D.; Gretz, N.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Felekkis, Kyriacos N. (2013)
      MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and copy number variations (CNVs) represent two classes of newly discovered genomic elements that were shown to contribute to genome plasticity and evolution. Recent studies demonstrated that miRNAs and ...
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      Co-Inheritance of Functional Podocin Variants with Heterozygous Collagen IV Mutations Predisposes to Renal Failure 

      Stefanou, Charalambos; Pieri, Myrtani; Savva, Isavella; Georgiou, Georgios C.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2015)
      BACKGROUND/AIMS: A subset of patients who present with proteinuria and are diagnosed with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) have inherited heterozygous COL4A3/A4 mutations and are also diagnosed with thin basement ...
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      COL4A3 founder mutations in Greek-Cypriot families with thin basement membrane nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis dating from around 18th century 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Patsias, Charalambos; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2008)
      Mutations in the COL4A3/COL4A4 genes of type IV collagen account for about 40% of cases of thin basement membrane nephropathy, a condition that is estimated to affect 1% or more of the general population. We recently ...
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      COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations link familial hematuria and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Glomerular epithelium destruction via basement membrane thinning? 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2008)
      The recent description of multiple gene defects in hereditary podocytopathies and in hereditary glomerular basement membrane diseases has dramatically improved the current state of our knowledge on the renal glomerular ...
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      COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations producing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and renal failure in thin basement membrane nephropathy 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Damianou, Loukas; Neocleous, Vassos; Zouvani, Ioanna; Christodoulidou, Stalo; Hadjiconstantinou, Valsamakis E.; Ioannou, Kyriakos; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Patsias, Charalambos; Alexopoulos, Efstathios; Pierides, Alkis M.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2007)
      Mutations in the COL4A3/COL4A4 genes of type IV collagen have been found in ∼40% of cases of thin basement membrane nephropathy, which is characterized by microscopic hematuria and is classically thought to cause proteinuria ...
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      COL4A5 and LAMA5 variants co-inherited in familial hematuria: digenic inheritance or genetic modifier effect? 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Papagregoriou, Gregory; Hadjipanagi, Despina; Petrou, Ioanelli; Savva, Isavella; Elia, Avraam; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Pastelli, Androulla; Kkolou, Maria; Hadjigavriel, Michalis; Stavrou, Christoforos; Pierides, Alkis; Deltas, Constantinos (2018)
      About 40–50% of patients with familial microscopic hematuria (FMH) caused by thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) inherit heterozygous mutations in collagen IV genes (COL4A3, COL4A4). On long follow-up, the full ...
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      Correction: A european spectrum of pharmacogenomic biomarkers: Implications for clinical pharmacogenomics (PLoS ONE (2016) 11:9 (e0162866) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162866) 

      Mizzi, C.; Dalabira, E.; Kumuthini, J.; Dzimiri, N.; Balogh, István; Başak, N.; Böhm, R.; Borg, J.; Borgiani, P.; Bozina, N.; Bruckmueller, B.; Burzynska, B.; Carracedo, A.; Cascorbi, I.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Dolzan, V.; Fenech, A.; Grech, G.; Kasiulevicius, V.; Kádaši, D.; Kučinskas, V.; Khusnutdinova, E.; Loukas, Y. L.; Macek, M., Jr.; Makukh, H.; Mathijssen, R.; Mitropoulos, K.; Mitropoulou, C.; Novelli, G.; Papantoni, I.; Pavlovic, S.; Saglio, G.; Setric, J.; Stojiljkovic, M.; Stubbs, A. P.; Squassina, A.; Torres, M.; Turnovec, M.; van Schaik, R. H.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Wakil, S. M.; Werk, A.; del Zompo, M.; Zukic, B.; Katsila, T.; Ta Michael Lee, M.; Motsinger-Rief, A.; Mc Leod, H. L.; van der Spek, P. J.; Patrinos, G. P. (2017)
      The thirty-Third author's name is spelled incorrectly. The correct name is: Jadranka Sertić. © 2017 Mizzi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which ...
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      Distal renal tubular acidosis in a Libyan patient: Evidence for digenic inheritance 

      Nagara, Majdi; Papagregoriou, Gregory; Ben Abdallah, Rim; Landoulsi, Zied; Bouyacoub, Yosra; Elouej, Sahar; Kefi, Rym; Pippucci, Tommaso; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Bashamboo, Anu; McElreavey, Kenneth; Hachicha, Mongia; Romeo, Giovanni; Seri, Marco; Deltas, Constantinos; Abdelhak, Sonia (2018)
      Aim of the study Recent advances in understanding the underlying molecular mechanism for distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA), led to an increased attention towards the primary and the familial forms of the disease. Mutations ...
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      Epistatic Role of the MYH9/APOL1 Region on Familial Hematuria Genes 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Papazachariou, Louiza; Arsali, Maria; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Zavros, Michalis; Stylianou, Konstantinos G.; Xydakis, D.; Daphnis, Eugenios K.; Gale, D. P.; Maxwell, P. H.; Elia, Avraam; Pattaro, C.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2013)
      Familial hematuria (FH) is explained by at least four different genes (see below). About 50% of patients develop late proteinuria and chronic kidney disease (CKD). We hypothesized that MYH9/APOL1, two closely linked genes ...
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      A European spectrum of pharmacogenomic biomarkers: Implications for clinical pharmacogenomics 

      Mizzi, C.; Dalabira, E.; Kumuthini, J.; Dzimiri, N.; Balogh, István; Başak, N.; Böhm, R.; Borg, J.; Borgiani, P.; Bozina, N.; Bruckmueller, H.; Burzynska, B.; Carracedo, A.; Cascorbi, I.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Dolzan, V.; Fenech, A.; Grech, G.; Kasiulevicius, V.; Kádaši, L.; Kučinskas, V.; Khusnutdinova, E.; Loukas, Y. L.; Macek, M.; Makukh, H.; Mathijssen, R.; Mitropoulos, K.; Mitropoulou, C.; Novelli, G.; Papantoni, I.; Pavlovic, S.; Saglio, G.; Setric, J.; Stojiljkovic, M.; Stubbs, A. P.; Squassina, A.; Torres, M.; Turnovec, M.; Van Schaik, R. H.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Wakil, S. M.; Werk, A.; Zompo, M. D.; Zukic, B.; Katsila, T.; Lee, M. T. M.; Motsinger-Rief, A.; Leod, H. L. M.; Van Der Spek, P. J.; Patrinos, G. P. (2016)
      Pharmacogenomics aims to correlate inter-individual differences of drug efficacy and/or toxicity with the underlying genetic composition, particularly in genes encoding for protein factors and enzymes involved in drug ...
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      Evidence for activation of the unfolded protein response in collagen iv nephropathies 

      Pieri, Myrtani; Stefanou, Charalambos; Zaravinos, Apostolos; Erguler, K.; Stylianou, Konstantinos G.; Lapathitis, Georgios; Karaiskos, Christos; Savva, Isavella; Paraskeva, Revekka; Dweep, H.; Sticht, C.; Anastasiadou, Natassa; Zouvani, Ioanna; Goumenos, Dimitrios S.; Felekkis, Kyriacos N.; Saleem, M.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Gretz, N.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2014)
      Thin-basement-membrane nephropathy (TBMN) and Alport syndrome (AS) are progressive collagen IV nephropathies caused by mutations in COL4A3/A4/A5 genes. These nephropathies invariably present with microscopic hematuria and ...
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      Evidence that NPHS2-R229Q predisposes to proteinuria and renal failure in familial hematuria 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Arsali, Maria; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Elia, Avraam; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2012)
      Background Familial hematuria (FH) is associated with at least two pathological entities: Thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN), caused by heterozygous COL4A3/ COL4A4 mutations, and C3 nephropathy caused by CFHR5 ...
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      Familial C3 Glomerulopathy Associated with CFHR5 Mutations: Clinical Characteristics of 91 Patients in 16 Pedigrees 

      Athanasiou, Yiannis; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Gale, D. P.; Damianou, Loukas; Patsias, Charalambos; Zavros, Michalis; Maxwell, P. H.; Cook, H. T.; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Zouvani, Ioanna; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2011)
      Background and objectives Complement factor H and related proteins (CFHR) are key regulators of the alternative complement pathway, where loss of function mutations lead to a glomerulopathy with isolated mesangial C3 ...
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      Founder mutations in the ATP6V1B1 geneexplain most cypriot cases of distal renal tubular acidosis: First prenatal diagnosis 

      Elia, Avraam; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Michalopoulou, A.; Malliarou, M. -A; Georgaki, Eleni; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Patsias, Charalambos; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2011)
      Aims: To investigate clinically and genetically all the distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) cases in Cyprus, to study one more family from Greece and to perform the first dRTA prenatal diagnosis. We also tried to find any ...
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      Frequency of COL4A3/COL4A4 Mutations amongst families segregating glomerular microscopic hematuria and evidence for activation of the unfolded protein response. Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis is a frequent development during ageing 

      Papazachariou, Louiza; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Pieri, Myrtani; Papagregoriou, Gregory N.; Savva, Isavella; Stavrou, Christoforos V.; Zavros, Michalis; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Ioannou, Kyriakos; Patsias, Charalambos; Panagides, Alexia; Potamitis, Costas; Demetriou, Kyproula; Prikis, Marios; Hadjigavriel, Michalis; Kkolou, Maria; Loukaidou, Panayiota; Pastelli, Androulla; Michael, Aristos; Lazarou, Akis; Arsali, Maria; Damianou, Loukas; Goutziamani, Ioanna; Soloukides, Andreas P.; Yioukas, Lakis; Elia, Avraam; Zouvani, Ioanna; Polycarpou, Polycarpos; Pierides, Alkis M.; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2014)
      Familial glomerular hematuria(s) comprise a genetically heterogeneous group of conditions which include Alport Syndrome (AS) and thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN). Here we investigated 57 Greek-Cypriot families ...
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      A functional variant in NEPH3 gene confers high risk of renal failure in primary hematuric glomerulopathies. Evidence for predisposition to microalbuminuria in the general population 

      Voskarides, Konstantinos; Stefanou, Charalambos; Pieri, Myrtani; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Felekkis, Kyriacos N.; Arsali, Maria; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Xydakis, D.; Stylianou, Konstantinos G.; Daphnis, Eugenios K.; Goulielmos, George N.; Loizou, P.; Savige, J.; Höhne, M.; Völker, L. A.; Benzing, T.; Maxwell, P. H.; Gale, D. P.; Gorski, M.; Böger, C.; Kollerits, B.; Kronenberg, F.; Paulweber, B.; Zavros, Michalis; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2017)
      Background Recent data emphasize that thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) should not be viewed as a form of benign familial hematuria since chronic renal failure (CRF) and even end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is a ...