Trans-ethnic genome-wide association study provides insight into effector genes and molecular mechanisms for kidney function and highlights a causal effect on kidney-specific disease aetiologies
Andrew P. Morris, Thu H Le, Hao Wu, Artur Akbarov, Peter J. van der Most, Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith, Anubha Mahajan, Kyle J. Gaulton, Girish N. Nadkarni, Adán Valladares‐Salgado, Niels H. Wacher, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Nicole Dueker, Xiuqing Guo, , Nora Franceschini
This study identifies 93 genetic loci associated with kidney function across four ancestry groups and highlights causal effects on kidney-related diseases.
Nature Communications · Dec 28, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics