Stefan Somlo MD

C. N. H. Long Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Professor of Genetics; Chief, Section of Nephrology

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology

Yale Medical Group

Physiology of Human Disease

Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Internal Medicine: Nephrology

Genetics

Genetic kidney and liver disease; Cilia function in tissue homeostasis; Polycystin function

Polycystic kidney disease; inherited or familial kidney disease; genetic aspects of kidney disease; polycystic liver disease

Fedeles SV, Tian X, Gallagher AR, Mitobe M, Nishio S, Lee SH, Cai Y, Geng L, Crews CM, Somlo S: A genetic interaction network of five genes for human polycystic kidney and liver diseases defines polycystin-1 as the central determinant of cyst formation. Nat Genet 43:639-647, 2011

Articles

July/August 2011

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common form of polycystic kidney disease, is an...

Swirled in a cup, tea leaves are said to offer a glimpse into the future. Now, Yale researchers have shown that one...

First Stefan Somlo, M.D., Yale’s chief of nephrology, learned that he would be heading off to Singapore in late June to...