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Hypertension-misattributed kidney disease in African Americans.
Kidney international - 1 Jan 2013
Skorecki Karl L, Wasser Walter G
Abstract excerpt
Lipkowitz et al. extend the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension to the level of genetic epidemiology, in a case-control study design. Analysis of genotypes at the APOL1 kidney disease risk region supports a paradigm shift in which genetic risk is proximate to both kidney disease and hypertension. The findings mandate urgency in clarifying mechanisms whereby APOL1 region risk variants...
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