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Genome-wide association study identifies new loci for albuminuria in the Japanese population.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Aug 2020
Okuda Hiroshi, Okamoto Koji, Abe Michiaki, Ishizawa Kota, Makino Satoshi, Tanabe Osamu, Sugawara Junichi, Hozawa Atsushi, Tanno Kozo, Sasaki Makoto, Tamiya Gen, Yamamoto Masayuki, Ito Sadayoshi, Ishii Tadashi
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BACKGROUND: Urinary albumin excretion (UAE) is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, chronic kidney disease, etc. Only a few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for UAE have been conducted in the European population, but not in the Asian population. Here we conducted GWAS and identified several candidate genes harboring single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) responsible for UAE in the...
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