THSD7A and allergic disease: Recently, Hara et al. reported that among 469 consecutive cases of pathologically confirmed MN diagnosed by THSD7A tissue staining of renal biopsy specimens at four centers in Japan, 14 cases were confirmed positive for THSD7A by immunohistochemistry (3.0%), and four patients had concurrent or previous incidence of allergic diseases, including one patient with Kimura’s disease [10].