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Lack of Association of the APOL1 G3 Haplotype in African Americans with ESRD.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN - 1 May 2015
Palmer Nicholette D, Ng Maggie C Y, Langefeld Carl D, Divers Jasmin, Lea Janice P, Okusa Mark D, Kimberly Robert P, Bowden Donald W, Freedman Barry I
Abstract excerpt
Apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) G1 and G2 variants are strongly associated with progressive nondiabetic nephropathy in populations with recent African ancestry. Selection for these variants occurred as a result of protection from human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Resequencing of this region in...
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