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Chronic kidney disease: novel insights from genome-wide association studies.
Kidney & blood pressure research - 1 Jan 2011
Böger Carsten A, Heid Iris M
Abstract excerpt
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common, affecting about 10% of the general population, and causing significant morbidity and mortality. Apart from the risk conferred by traditional cardiovascular risk factors, there is a strong genetic component. The method of a genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful hypothesis-free approach to unravel this component by association analyses of CKD with several million...
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