Familial clustering of end-stage renal disease in blacks with HIV-associated nephropathy.

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Human immunodeficiency virus-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) develops more often in HIV-infected blacks than whites. Blacks also show marked familial clustering of other causes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), particularly diabetes mellitus-, hypertension-, and systemic lupus erythematosus-associated ESRD. We compared the family history of ESRD in 201 blacks with ESRD caused by HIVAN (cases) to that of 50...

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