Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasing global public health concern, particularly among populations of African ancestry. We performed an interrogation of known renal loci, genome-wide association (GWA), and IBC candidate-gene SNP association analyses in African Americans from the CARe Renal C...

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Main Authors: Ching-Ti Liu, Maija K Garnaas, Adrienne Tin, Anna Kottgen, Nora Franceschini, Carmen A Peralta, Ian H de Boer, Xiaoning Lu, Elizabeth Atkinson, Jingzhong Ding, Michael Nalls, Daniel Shriner, Josef Coresh, Abdullah Kutlar, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, David Siscovick, Ermeg Akylbekova, Sharon Wyatt, Brad Astor, Josef Mychaleckjy, Man Li, Muredach P Reilly, Raymond R Townsend, Adebowale Adeyemo, Alan B Zonderman, Mariza de Andrade, Stephen T Turner, Thomas H Mosley, Tamara B Harris, CKDGen Consortium, Charles N Rotimi, Yongmei Liu, Sharon L R Kardia, Michele K Evans, Michael G Shlipak, Holly Kramer, Michael F Flessner, Albert W Dreisbach, Wolfram Goessling, L Adrienne Cupples, W Linda Kao, Caroline S Fox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002264&type=printable
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