Meeting report of the 2017 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium

Kushani Jayasinghe; Cathy Quinlan; Zornitza Stark; Chirag Patel; Matthew G Sampson; Moin Saleem; Andrew J Mallett; KidGen Collaborative

doi:10.1186/s40246-018-0137-7

Meeting report of the 2017 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium

Hum Genomics. 2018 Jan 30;12(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s40246-018-0137-7.

Authors

Kushani Jayasinghe^{1

2}, Cathy Quinlan^{3

4

5}, Zornitza Stark^{3

4

6}, Chirag Patel^{3

7}, Matthew G Sampson⁸, Moin Saleem⁹, Andrew J Mallett^{3

10

11}; KidGen Collaborative

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia. kushani.jayasinghe@gmail.com.
² KidGen Renal Genetics Flagship, Australian Genomic Health Alliance, Melbourne, Australia. kushani.jayasinghe@gmail.com.
³ KidGen Renal Genetics Flagship, Australian Genomic Health Alliance, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁷ Genetic Health Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
⁸ Department Of Pediatrics-Nephrology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA.
⁹ Bristol Renal, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
¹¹ Kidney Health Service and Conjoint Renal Research Laboratory, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Butterfield Street, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, 4029, Australia.

Abstract

The 2017 KidGen Renal Genetics Symposium was held at the Royal Children's Hospital and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, from 6 to 8 December 2017. This meeting addressed clinical, diagnostic, and research aspects of inherited kidney disease. More than 100 clinicians, researchers, and patient representatives attended the conference. The overall goal was to improve the understanding and direction of genomics in renal medicine in Australia and discuss barriers to the use of genomic testing within this area. It also aimed to strengthen collaborations between local, state, and global research and diagnostic and clinical groups.

Keywords: Inherited kidney disease; Nephrogenetics; Renal genetics.

Publication types

Congress
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Genomics*
Humans
Kidney / physiopathology*
Kidney Diseases / genetics*
Kidney Diseases / physiopathology

Grants and funding

MR/R013942/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom