Admixture mapping of end stage kidney disease genetic susceptibility using estimated mutual information ancestry informative markers

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The question of a genetic contribution to the higher prevalence and incidence of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) among African Americans (AA) remained unresolved, until recent findings using admixture mapping pointed to the associati...

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Main Authors: Geiger Dan, Templeton Alan, Yudkovsky Guennady, Wasser Walter G, Bercovici Sivan, Shlush Liran I, Skorecki Karl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1755-8794/3/47