Uddanam Kidney Nephropathy Under the Light of Metagenomics Perspective

In this work, we proposed a research hypothesis which mainly focuses on the role of gut microbiota, in relation with chronic kidney disease, existing in the village of Uddanam belonging to the State of Andhra Pradesh, India. Earlier studies conducted on various physical and chemical parameters, such as food, water, soil and pesticides, could not find the exact cause of the aetiology of the disease. As there were no physical and chemical causative factors identified, this disease was hence named as mysterious Uddanam kidney nephropathy of unknown origins. There are few scientific pieces of evidence available in the literature, which suggests the role of gut microbiome dysbiosis and its impact on kidney disease. Such kinds of scientific studies which deal with the analysis of microbial communities of the gut region and identification of dysbiosis were not performed in the case of Uddanam kidney nephropathy. Thus, through this paper, we propose a hypothesis to analyse and establish the relationship between the gut dysbiosis and renal failure by performing the metagenomics study between the patients and the normal individuals. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reports available to date on the dysbiosis of the gut microbiome and its impact on Uddanam nephropathy and hence this research hypothesis is thus proposed.