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High risk APOL1 genotypes and kidney disease among treatment naïve HIV patients at Kano, Nigeria.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2022
Abdu Aliyu, Duarte Raquel, Dickens Caroline, Dix-Peek Therese, Bala Sunusi M, Ademola Babatunde, Naicker Saraladevi
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Racial disparities are known in the occurrence of kidney disease with excess risks found among people of African descent. Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene variants G1 and G2 are associated with kidney disease among HIV infected individuals of African descent in the USA as well as among black population in South Africa. We set out to investigate the prevalence of these high-risk variants and their...
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