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Genetic risk score and risk of stage 3 chronic kidney disease.
BMC nephrology - 19 Jan 2017
Ma Jiantao, Yang Qiong, Hwang Shih-Jen, Fox Caroline S, Chu Audrey Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We developed a genetic risk score (GRS) and examined whether the GRS may predict incident stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) independent of common clinical risk factors. METHOD: The present study included 2,698 individuals who attended the 15th (1977 to 1979) and the 24th exams (1995 to 1998) in the Framingham Original cohort or the 6th (1995 to 1998) and the 8th exams (2005 to 2008) in the...
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