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Uromodulin gene variant is associated with type 2 diabetic nephropathy.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Sept 2011
Ahluwalia Tarunveer S, Lindholm Eero, Groop Leif, Melander Olle
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: About 35% of individuals with type 2 diabetes develop persistent albuminuria, lose renal function, and are at increased risk for microvascular complications like diabetic nephropathy. Recent genome-wide association studies have identified the uromodulin locus (UMOD), encoding the most common protein in human urine to be associated with hypertension and also with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In...
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