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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Ching-Ti, Garnaas, Maija K., Tin, Adrienne, Kottgen, Anna, Franceschini, Nora, Peralta, Carmen A., de Boer, Ian H., Lu, Xiaoning, Atkinson, Elizabeth, Ding, Jingzhong, Nalls, Michael, Shriner, Daniel, Coresh, Josef, Kutlar, Abdullah, Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten, Siscovick, David, Akylbekova, Ermeg, Wyatt, Sharon, Astor, Brad, Mychaleckjy, Josef, Li, Man, Reilly, Muredach P., Townsend, Raymond R., Adeyemo, Adebowale, Zonderman, Alan B., de Andrade, Mariza, Turner, Stephen T., Mosley, Thomas H., Harris, Tamara B., Rotimi, Charles N., Liu, Yongmei, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Evans, Michele K., Shlipak, Michael G., Kramer, Holly, Flessner, Michael F., Dreisbach, Albert W., Goessling, Wolfram, Cupples, L. Adrienne, Kao, W. Linda, Fox, Caroline S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169523/