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Apolipoprotein L1 risk variants associate with systemic lupus erythematosus-associated collapsing glomerulopathy.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 Apr 2013
Larsen Christopher P, Beggs Marjorie L, Saeed Mohammad, Walker Patrick D
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Collapsing glomerulopathy is a devastating renal disease that primarily affects African Americans and associates with numerous etiologies, such as HIV and autoimmune disease. The presence of APOL1 risk alleles associates with HIV-associated collapsing glomerulopathy, but it is unknown whether these risk alleles also associate with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) -associated collapsing glomerulopathy. Here,...
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