Genetic Terminal Complement Deficiency in Israeli Bedouins With Kidney Failure

• Guy Chowers,
• Dror Ben-Ruby,
• Danit Atias-Varon,
• Omer Shlomovitz,
• Keren Slabodnik-Kaner,
• Maayan Kagan,
• Shany Avayou,
• Elvira Romanjuk,
• Boris Rogachev,
• Yosef S. Haviv,
• Ohad S. Birk,
• Noam Hadar,
• Younes Bathish,
• Iris Barshack,
• Alexander Volkov,
• Camila Avivi,
• Anna Pavlovsky,
• Orly Haskin,
• Amos J. Simon,
• Efrat Glick-Saar,
• Alina Ostrovsky,
• Mawada Assi,
• Ruth Schreiber,
• Dana Levin,
• Yoram Yagil,
• Mohammad Awawdeh,
• Karl Skorecki,
• Dan Dominissini,
• Alla Shnaider,
• Asaf Vivante

Affiliations

Guy Chowers

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Dror Ben-Ruby

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Danit Atias-Varon

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Omer Shlomovitz

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Keren Slabodnik-Kaner

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Maayan Kagan

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Shany Avayou

Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Elvira Romanjuk

Department of Nephrology, Soroka University Medical Centre, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Boris Rogachev

Department of Nephrology, Soroka University Medical Centre, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Yosef S. Haviv

Department of Nephrology, Soroka University Medical Centre, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ohad S. Birk

Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Genetics Institute at Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Noam Hadar

Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Younes Bathish

Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel; The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Iris Barshack

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Alexander Volkov

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Camila Avivi

Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Anna Pavlovsky

Institute of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Orly Haskin

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Institute of Nephrology, Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel

Amos J. Simon

Hemato-Immunology Unit, Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Sheba Cancer Research Centre, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Efrat Glick-Saar

Sheba Cancer Research Centre, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Wohl Center for Translational Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Alina Ostrovsky

Hemato-Immunology Unit, Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Mawada Assi

Hemato-Immunology Unit, Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Ruth Schreiber

Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Pediatric Nephrology Clinic, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Dana Levin

Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Yoram Yagil

Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel; A.P.C Health, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Barzilai University Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel

Mohammad Awawdeh

The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; Hemodialysis Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Holy Family Hospital, Nazareth, Israel

Karl Skorecki

The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel; Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

Dan Dominissini

Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Hemato-Immunology Unit, Hematology Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Sheba Cancer Research Centre, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Wohl Center for Translational Medicine, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Alla Shnaider

Department of Nephrology, Soroka University Medical Centre, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Asaf Vivante

Department of Pediatrics B, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Genetic Kidney Diseases Research Laboratory, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Correspondence: Asaf Vivante, Department of Pediatrics B and Genetic Kidney Disease Research Laboratory, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital and Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan 5265601, Israel.