What if you have genetic kidney disease?
What Do I Need To Know?
Understanding the genetic basis of kidney disease.
Knowledge is power. The more known about the cause of a person’s disease, the better equipped we are to potentially delay or treat disease as it progresses.
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Through our research and outreach efforts, we strive to advance the field of genetic testing and counseling and improve the lives of people affected by kidney disease.
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How can we provide personalized medicine for patients with kidney disease?
One in ten Canadians has kidney disease and at least 10% of kidney disease may have a genetic cause
Genetic testing has become an essential tool for many people with genetic kidney disease to help identify and manage genetic risk factors, and to help develop a personalized treatment plan to diagnose and treat specific kidney disorders more effectively.
Our kidney genetics clinic is dedicated to providing patients and families (adult and pediatric patients) with suspected genetic kidney disease with the most accurate and up-to-date genetic testing and counseling services available. Our goal is to help patients understand their unique genetic makeup and how it may impact their kidney health and well-being.
We can find the genetic basis of kidney disease in about 50% of patients, and new genes are being discovered all the time.
“Gene therapy is arguably the most exciting area of biotechnology at this moment – both due to recent progress and because of the possibilities on the horizon. Unprecedented levels of control over nucleic acid delivery, modulation of the immune system, and precise manipulation of the human genome – technologies not imaginable ten years ago – will certainly unlock new areas of medicine over the next ten years.”
Bulaklak, K., Gersbach, C.A
How can we provide personalized medicine for patients with kidney disease?
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We will be working with The Transplant Program (TAP) to offer webinars to patients and families with genetic or suspected genetic kidney disease. Watch for our next webinar here: