Genome-Wide Association and Trans-ethnic Meta-Analysis for Advanced Diabetic Kidney Disease: Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND).

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the most common etiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the industrialized world and accounts for much of the excess mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus. Approximately 45% of U.S. patients with incident end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have DKD. Independe...

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Main Authors: Sudha K Iyengar, John R Sedor, Barry I Freedman, W H Linda Kao, Matthias Kretzler, Benjamin J Keller, Hanna E Abboud, Sharon G Adler, Lyle G Best, Donald W Bowden, Allison Burlock, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Shelley A Cole, Mary E Comeau, Jeffrey M Curtis, Jasmin Divers, Christiane Drechsler, Ravi Duggirala, Robert C Elston, Xiuqing Guo, Huateng Huang, Michael Marcus Hoffmann, Barbara V Howard, Eli Ipp, Paul L Kimmel, Michael J Klag, William C Knowler, Orly F Kohn, Tennille S Leak, David J Leehey, Man Li, Alka Malhotra, Winfried März, Viji Nair, Robert G Nelson, Susanne B Nicholas, Stephen J O'Brien, Madeleine V Pahl, Rulan S Parekh, Marcus G Pezzolesi, Rebekah S Rasooly, Charles N Rotimi, Jerome I Rotter, Jeffrey R Schelling, Michael F Seldin, Vallabh O Shah, Adam M Smiles, Michael W Smith, Kent D Taylor, Farook Thameem, Denyse P Thornley-Brown, Barbara J Truitt, Christoph Wanner, E Jennifer Weil, Cheryl A Winkler, Philip G Zager, Robert P Igo, Robert L Hanson, Carl D Langefeld, Family Investigation of Nephropathy and Diabetes (FIND)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4549309?pdf=render