Phenotypic Discordance among Siblings with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease: Case Report and Review of the Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Missense variants in the PKHD1 gene are associated with the full spectrum of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease severity and exhibit variable expressivity. The study of clinical expressivity is limited by the extensive allelic heterogeneity within the PKHD1 gene, which encodes a 4074-amino-acid protein. We report the case of adult siblings with biallelic missense PKHD1 variants, c.4870C>T (p.Arg1624Trp) and c.8206T>G (p.Trp2736Gly), who presented with discordant phenotypes. Patient A developed progressive chronic kidney disease and Caroli syndrome in childhood requiring combined liver and kidney transplantation, while patient B remains minimally affected in the fourth decade of life with normal kidney function and signs of medullary sponge kidney on imaging. We review previously reported cases of phenotypic discordance among siblings and suggest that genotypes composed of at least one hypomorphic missense variant are more likely to lead to phenotypic discordance.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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