1. Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci for type 2 diabetes-attributed end-stage kidney disease in African Americans
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Meijian Guan, Jacob M. Keaton, Latchezar Dimitrov, Pamela J. Hicks, Jianzhao Xu, Nicholette D. Palmer, Lijun Ma, Swapan K. Das, Yii-Der I. Chen, Josef Coresh, Myriam Fornage, Nora Franceschini, Holly Kramer, Carl D. Langefeld, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Rulan S. Parekh, Wendy S. Post, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, John R. Sedor, Denyse Thornley-Brown, Adrienne Tin, James G. Wilson, Barry I. Freedman, Donald W. Bowden, Maggie C. Y. Ng, and FIND Consortium
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African Americans ,Genome-wide association study ,Type 2 diabetes ,Diabetic kidney disease ,End-stage kidney disease ,Medicine ,Genetics ,QH426-470 - Abstract
Abstract Background End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a significant public health concern disproportionately affecting African Americans (AAs). Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the leading cause of ESKD in the USA, and efforts to uncover genetic susceptibility to diabetic kidney disease (DKD) have had limited success. A prior genome-wide association study (GWAS) in AAs with T2D-ESKD was expanded with additional AA cases and controls and genotypes imputed to the higher density 1000 Genomes reference panel. The discovery analysis included 3432 T2D-ESKD cases and 6977 non-diabetic non-nephropathy controls (N = 10,409), followed by a discrimination analysis in 2756 T2D non-nephropathy controls to exclude T2D-associated variants. Results Six independent variants located in or near RND3/RBM43, SLITRK3, ENPP7, GNG7, and APOL1 achieved genome-wide significant association (P
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- 2019
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