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Diagnostic Labs

Listed below are laboratories that perform analysis of kidney and skin biopsies by State and/or Country. Following this list are laboratories that perform genetic testing for Alport Syndrome both in the USA and abroad. This is not an inclusive list. If  your laboratory is interested in being listed on this website and performs Alport Syndrome diagnostic or genetic testing, please email us at info@alportsyndrome.org.

Electron Microscopy and Immunohistochemistry of Skin and Kidney Biopsy Specimens

California

University of California, San Francisco

Department of Pathology

513 Parnassus

Room S-570

San Francisco, CA 94143

Telephone: (415) 476-2727

Connecticut

Yale University

310 Cedar Street

PO Box 208023

New Haven, CT 06520-8023

Telephone: (203) 785-2750

Florida

University of Miami

VA Hospital

Renal Pathology

Telephone: (305) 575-3159

Illinois

Rush University Medical Center

Department of Pathology

1753 West Congress Parkway

Chicago, IL 60612

Telephone: (312) 942-5262

University of Chicago Medical Center

5841 South Maryland Avenue

MC6101

Chicago, IL 60637

Telephone: (773) 834-3426

Maryland

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Department of Pathology

Pathology 711

600 North Wolfe Street

Baltimore, MD 21205

Telephone: (410) 955-3437

Massachusetts

Harvard Medical School

Immunopathology Unit

Warren 503, Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit Street

Boston, MA 02114

Telephone: (617) 726-8444

Minnesota

University of Minnesota
Department of Pediatrics
Immunopathology Laboratory
Telephone: (612) 626-3286

Missouri

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Department of Pathology, Nephropathology Division

1402 South Grand

St. Louis, MO 63104

Telephone: (314) 268-5765

Washington University School of Medicine

Department of Pathology and Immunology

Division of Anatomic Pathology

660 South Euclid Avenue

St. Louis, MO 63110

Telephone: (314) 362-0136

New York
Columbia University
Renal Pathology Laboratory
Room VC 14-224
630 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Telephone: (212) 305-7460

NYU Medical Center

Department of Pathology (FGP)

PAL

560 First Street

New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (212) 263-5472

North Carolina

University of North Carolina

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Campus Box #7525

Binkhous-Bullitt Bldg, Room 409

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7525

Telephone: (919) 966-2421

Ohio

Ohio State University

Renal and Transplant Pathology

320 West 10th Avenue

M018 Starling Loving

Columbus, OH 43210

Telephone: (614) 293-9258

Oregon

Oregon Health and Sciences University

Pathology Department, L113

3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road

Portland, OR 97239

Telephone: (503) 494-4110

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University

Department of Pathology

C-3310 Medical Center North

21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37232-2561

Telephone: (615) 322-5000

Texas

Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

Pathology

610 East 15th Street

Austin, TX 78701

(512) 324-7516

The Methodist Hospital

Renal Pathology Laboratory

6565 Fannin Street

Houston, TX 77030

Telephone: (713) 394-6481

Utah

University of Utah

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

1950 Circle of Hope

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Telephone: (801)587-4331

Virginia

University of Virginia

Department of Pathology

1215 Lee Street, Room 3028

PO Box 800214

Charlottesville, VA 22908

Telephone: (434) 243-0873

Canada

University of Calgary

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Diagnostic & Scientific Centre
9,3535 Research Road NE
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2L 2K8

Telephone: (403) 770-3569

University Health Network and University of  Toronto

Department of Pathology

11E-225, TGH, 200 Elizabeth Street

M5G 2C4

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Telephone: (416) 340-4560

The Netherlands

Academic Medical Center

Pathology (M2-108)

PO Box 22660

NL-1100DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Telephone: +31-20-5664240 or +31-20-566911(page 58020)

Genetic Testing


This information was obtained from www.genetests.org. The following laboratories offer clinical testing for the various types of Alport Syndrome as indicated below.

ARAS and ADAS - COL4A3 and COL4A4 and Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy
Center for Nephrology and Metabolic Disorders
Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics
Weisswasser, Germany
Mato Nagel, MD
www.moldiag.com/en/dis/alport.htm

Centogene GmbH

Institute of Molecular Diagnostics

Rostock, Germany

Dr. Hagen Pommerenke, PhD

www.centogene.de/

Sistemas Genomicos

Medical Genetics Unit

Paterna, Valencia, Spain

Javier Garcia-Planells, PhD

email: UGM@sistemasgenomicos.com

XLAS – COL4A5

Athena Diagnostics, Inc.
Four Biotech Park
377 Plantation Street
Worcester, MA 01605

Phone: 1-800-394-4493 (Toll Free)
or 1-508-756-2886 (For callers outside the US and Canada)
Fax: 508-753-5601

www.athenadiagnostics.com/content/test-catalog/find-test/service-detail/q/id/1145

GeneDx, Inc

207 Perry Parkway

Gaithersburg, MD 20877

Phone: 301-519-2100

http://www.genedx.com/services/dis_aps.php

Center for Nephrology and Metabolic Disorders
Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics
Weisswasser, Germany
Mato Nagel, MD
www.moldiag.com/en/dis/alport.htm

Centogene GmbH

Institute of Molecular Diagnostics

Rostock, Germany

Dr. Hagen Pommerenke, PhD

www.centogene.de/

University Catholique de Louvain
Center for Human Genetics
Brussels, Belgium
Karin Dahan, MD, PhD; Winnie Courtens, MD; Catherine Sibille, MD
www.uclouvain.be/

Sistemas Genomicos

Medical Genetics Unit

Paterna, Valencia, Spain

Javier Garcia-Planells, PhD

email: UGM@sistemasgenomicos.com

 

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