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Genome-wide linkage scans for renal function and albuminuria in Type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Diabetes Heart Study.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Mar 2008
Freedman B I, Bowden D W, Rich S S, Xu J, Wagenknecht L E, Ziegler J, Hicks P J, Langefeld C D
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Glomerular filtration rate (GFR), end-stage renal disease and albuminuria are highly heritable. We performed a genome-wide linkage scan in 416 Diabetes Heart Study (DHS) families to detect loci that contributed to renal function and albuminuria. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 1067 individuals (900 with Type 2 diabetes mellitus) from 348 European American and 68 African American DHS families...
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