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The financial support for this database has been graciously provided by the PKD Foundation

Special thanks to Athena Diagnostics, and the Consortium for Radiologic Imaging Studies of Polycystic Kidney Disease (CRISP) for the contribution of unpublished mutations as well as all of those who have contributed to the published body of work on ADPKD
  

This database was designed and developed by the following key individuals:

Version 2.5:
Jamie Sundsbak
Database Design, Curation, & Social Media 		Sandro Rossetti & Peter Harris
Database Curation 		David Tines
Brandon Dallman
Jeremy C. Williams
Database Programming
Version 2.1:
Brian Wilson
Database Design & Programming. 		Sandro Rossetti
Database Curation 		Peter Harris
Database Curation.

Version 1:
Alex Gout
Data collation, curation and database construction. 		Neilson Martin
Hardware set-up, software configuration and programming. 		David Ravine
Data collation and resource conceptualization.


It would not have been possible without guidance, critical comments and assistance from the following:
Martijn Breuning, Leiden, The Netherlands
David Cooper, Cardiff, UK Lisa Guay-Woodford, Birmingham, USA Heikki Lehvaslaiho, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, Terry Watnick, Baltimore, USA 		Alastair Brown, Edinburgh, UK Dick Cotton, Melbourne, Australia Dorien Peters, The Netherlands Vicente Torres, Rochester, USA Arlene Chapman, Atlanta, USA Greg Germino, Baltimore, USA Michael Krawczak, Kiel, Germany


References
SIFT

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Genome Res. 2001 May; 11(5): 863.874.

Ng PC, Henikoff S.
Accounting for Human Polymorphisms Predicted to Affect Protein Function,
Genome Res. 2002 December; 436-446

Ng PC, Henikoff S.
SIFT: predicting amino acid changes that affect protein function,
Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, Vol. 31, No. 13 3812-3814

Kumar P, Henikoff S, Ng PC.
"Predicting the effects of coding non-synonymous variants on protein function using the SIFT algorithm."
Nature Protoc-4 2009; 1073-1081

Align GVGD

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Human Splicing Finder

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"Human Splicing Finder: an online bioinformatics tool to predict splicing signals."
Nucleic Acid Res, 2009

Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project

Reese MG, Eeckman FH, Kulp D, Haussler D, "Improved Splice Site Detection in Genie."
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