Authors' Reply

Andrew J B Watts^{1

2}, Keith H Keller¹, Astrid Weins^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Comment

Andrew J B Watts et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Mar.

. 2022 Mar;33(3):654.

doi: 10.1681/ASN.2021121540. Epub 2022 Jan 21.

Andrew J B Watts^{1

2}, Keith H Keller¹, Astrid Weins^{1

2}

¹ Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Keywords: chronic kidney disease; focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; glomerulopathy; nephrotic syndrome; podocyte; renal pathology.

Comment on

Discovery of Autoantibodies Targeting Nephrin in Minimal Change Disease Supports a Novel Autoimmune Etiology.
Watts AJB, Keller KH, Lerner G, Rosales I, Collins AB, Sekulic M, Waikar SS, Chandraker A, Riella LV, Alexander MP, Troost JP, Chen J, Fermin D, Yee JL, Sampson MG, Beck LH Jr, Henderson JM, Greka A, Rennke HG, Weins A. Watts AJB, et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Jan;33(1):238-252. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2021060794. Epub 2021 Nov 3. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022. PMID: 34732507 Free PMC article.
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1. Ye Q, Zhou C, Wang D, Fu H, Wang J, Mao J: Seven novel podocyte autoantibodies were identified to diagnosis a new disease subgroup-autoimmune Podocytopathies. Clin Immunol 232: 108869, 2021 - PubMed
1. Watts A, Keller K, Lerner G, Rosales I, Collins A, Sekulic M, et al. : Discovery of autoantibodies targeting nephrin in minimal change disease supports a novel autoimmune etiology. J Am Soc Nephrol 33: 238–252, 2022 - PMC - PubMed