Furthermore, the area of basement membrane covered by each podocyte was greater in LPD diabetic animals than both LPD controls and NPD diabetic animals and correlated with albumin excretion (Jones et al., 2006) supporting the concept that the altered renal development as a result of maternal protein restriction impacts the response to a secondary stimulus. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis.