A large-scale genetic analysis reveals an autoimmune origin of idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Medical Genetics Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ² Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina Lopez-Neyra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain.
• ³ Departamento de Genética e Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
• ⁴ Nephrology Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ⁵ Urology Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ⁶ Pathology Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ⁷ Nephrology Unit, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁸ Internal Medicine, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
• ⁹ Nephrology Unit, Fondazione Ca' Granda IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, Mo.
• ¹¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dutch National Center of Expertise for Retroperitoneal Fibrosis, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
• ¹² Nephrology Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy. Electronic address: augusto.vaglio@virgilio.it.