Mondo Description Any nephrotic syndrome in which the cause of the disease is a mutation in the PLCE1 gene.

Uniprot Description A form of nephrotic syndrome, a renal disease clinically characterized by severe proteinuria, resulting in complications such as hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia and edema. Kidney biopsies show non-specific histologic changes such as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and diffuse mesangial proliferation. Some affected individuals have an inherited steroid-resistant form and progress to end-stage renal failure. Most patients with NPHS3 show diffuse mesangial sclerosis on renal biopsy, which is a pathologic entity characterized by mesangial matrix expansion with no mesangial hypercellularity, hypertrophy of the podocytes, vacuolized podocytes, thickened basement membranes, and diminished patency of the capillary lumen.

Disease Ontology Description A familial nephrotic syndrome characterized by early childhood onset, steroid restance and diffuse mesangial sclerosis in most patients that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the PLCE1 gene on chromosome 10q23.