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Genetics of chronic kidney disease.
Nephron. Clinical practice - 1 Jan 2011
O'Seaghdha Conall M, Fox Caroline S
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The current review collates what is already known of the genetics of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and focuses on new trends in genome-wide assessment of the inherited component of susceptibility to this condition. Early efforts to identify kidney disease susceptibility genetic loci using linkage and candidate gene strategies proved disappointing. More recently, genome-wide association studies have yielded highly...
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