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  1. Nuran Kucuk and Zehra Yavas Abalı contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Pediatric Nephrology Unit, Kartal Dr Lütfi Kırdar Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Nuran Kucuk

  2. Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Fevzi Çakmak Mahallesi, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Caddesi, No: 10 34899 Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey

    Zehra Yavas Abalı, Serap Turan, Abdullah Bereket & Tulay Guran

  3. Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Saygın Abalı

  4. Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Nephrology,, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey

    Nur Canpolat

  5. Department of Medical Genetics, Bezmialem Vakıf University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

    Gozde Yesil

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Kucuk, N., Yavas Abalı, Z., Abalı, S. et al. A rare cause of hypertension in childhood: Answers. Pediatr Nephrol 35, 79–82 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-019-04329-0

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