Genome-wide association and functional follow-up reveals new loci for kidney function

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Pattaro, Cristian ^a   Köttgen, Anna ^b,c   Teumer, Alexander ^d   Garnaas, Maija ^e   Böger, Carsten A ^f   Fuchsberger, Christian ^g   Olden, Matthias ^f   Chen, Ming Huei ^h,i   Tin, Adrienne ^b   Taliun, Daniel ^a   Li, Man ^b   Gao, Xiaoyi ^j   Gorski, Mathias ^f,k   Yang, Qiong ⁱ   Hundertmark, Claudia ^c   Foster, Meredith C ^l   O'Seaghdha, Conall M ^e,l   Glazer, Nicole ^h   Isaacs, Aaron ^m,n   Liu, Ching Ti ⁱ   Smith, Albert V ^o,p   O'Connell, Jeffrey R ^q   Struchalin, Maksim ^m   Tanaka, Toshiko ^r   Li, Guo ^s   Johnson, Andrew D ^l   Gierman, Hinco J ^t   Feitosa, Mary ^j   Hwang, Shih Jen ^l   Atkinson, Elizabeth J ^u   Lohman, Kurt ^v   Cornelis, Marilyn C ^w   Johansson, Åsa ^x   Tönjes, Anke ^y   Dehghan, Abbas ^m   Chouraki, Vincent ^z   Holliday, Elizabeth G ^aa,ab   Sorice, Rossella ^ac   Kutalik, Zoltan ^ad,ae   Lehtimäki, Terho ^af   Esko, Tõnu ^ag,ah   Deshmukh, Harshal ^ai   Ulivi, Sheila ^aj   Chu, Audrey Y ^e   Murgia, Federico ^ak   Trompet, Stella ^al   Imboden, Medea ^am   Kollerits, Barbara ^an   Pistis, Giorgio ^ao   Harris, Tamara B ^r   Launer, Lenore J ^r   Aspelund, Thor ^o,p   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^o   Mitchell, Braxton D ^q   Boerwinkle, Eric ^ap   Schmidt, Helena ^aq   Cavalieri, Margherita ^aq   Rao, Madhumathi ^ar   Hu, Frank B ^w   Demirkan, Ayse ^m   Oostra, Ben A ^m   de Andrade, Mariza ^u   Turner, Stephen T ^u   Ding, Jingzhong ^v   Andrews, Jeanette S ^v   Freedman, Barry I ^v   Koenig, Wolfgang ^as   Illig, Thomas ^k   Döring, Angela ^k   Wichmann, H Erich ^k,at,au   Kolcic, Ivana ^av   Zemunik, Tatijana ^av   Boban, Mladen ^av   Minelli, Cosetta ^a   Wheeler, Heather E ^t,aw   Igl, Wilmar ^x   Zaboli, Ghazal ^x   Wild, Sarah H ^ax   Wright, Alan F ^ay   Campbell, Harry ^ax   Ellinghaus, David ^az   Nöthlings, Ute ^az,ba   Jacobs, Gunnar ^az,ba   Biffar, Reiner ^d   Endlich, Karlhans ^d   Ernst, Florian ^d   Homuth, Georg ^d   Kroemer, Heyo K ^d   Nauck, Matthias ^d   Stracke, Sylvia ^d   Völker, Uwe ^d   Völzke, Henry ^d   Kovacs, Peter ^y   Stumvoll, Michael ^y   Mägi, Reedik ^ag,bb   Hofman, Albert ^m   Uitterlinden, Andre G ^m   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^m   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^m   Polasek, Ozren ^av   Hastie, Nick ^ay   Vitart, Veronique ^ay   Helmer, Catherine ^bc,bd   Wang, Jie Jin ^be,bf   Ruggiero, Daniela ^ac   Bergmann, Sven ^ae   Kähönen, Mika ^af   Viikari, Jorma ^bg   Nikopensius, Tiit ^ah   Province, Michael ^j   Ketkar, Shamika ^j   Colhoun, Helen ^ai   Doney, Alex ^ai   Robino, Antonietta ^bh   Giulianini, Franco ^e   Krämer, Bernhard K ^bi   Portas, Laura ^ak   Ford, Ian ^bj   Buckley, Brendan M ^bk   Adam, Martin ^am   Thun, Gian Andri ^am   Paulweber, Bernhard ^bl   Haun, Margot ^an   Sala, Cinzia ^ao   Metzger, Marie ^bm   Mitchell, Paul ^be   Ciullo, Marina ^ac   Kim, Stuart K ^t   Vollenweider, Peter ^bn   Raitakari, Olli ^bo   Metspalu, Andres ^ag,ah   Palmer, Colin ^bp   Gasparini, Paolo ^bh   Pirastu, Mario ^ak   Jukema, J Wouter ^al,bq,br,bs   Probst Hensch, Nicole M ^am   Kronenberg, Florian ^an   Toniolo, Daniela ^ao   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^o,p   Shuldiner, Alan R ^q,bt   Coresh, Josef ^b,bu   Schmidt, Reinhold ^aq   Ferrucci, Luigi ^r   Siscovick, David S ^s   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^m   Borecki, Ingrid ^j   Kardia, Sharon L R ^g   Liu, Yongmei ^v   Curhan, Gary C ^e   Rudan, Igor ^ax   Gyllensten, Ulf ^x   Wilson, James F ^ax   Franke, Andre ^az   Pramstaller, Peter P ^a   Rettig, Rainer ^d   Prokopenko, Inga ^bb   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^m   Hayward, Caroline ^ay   Ridker, Paul ^e,bv   Parsa, Afshin ^q   Bochud, Murielle ^bn   Heid, Iris M ^f,k   Goessling, Wolfram ^e,bw   Chasman, Daniel I ^e,bv   Kao, W H Linda ^b,bu   Fox, Caroline S ^e,l   more..

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^l FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^m ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁿ Centre for Medical Systems Biology   (Netherlands)

^o ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^t STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^v WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^w HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^x UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^y UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^z INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^ab HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^ac INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^ae SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^af TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^aj INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^ak CNR   (Italy)

^al LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^am SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^an INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^ao SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^aq MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^ar TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^as UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^at UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^au LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^av UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^ay WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^az UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^ba UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^bb UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^bc INSERM   (France)

^bd UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^be UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^bf UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^bg UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^bh UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^bi UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^bj UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^bk UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^bl PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^bm CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^bn LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^bo UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^bp UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^bq ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^br Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine   (Netherlands)

^bs Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research   (Netherlands)

^bt BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bu JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^bv HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^bw HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; CASP9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CASPASE 9; CDK12 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; DDX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; HELICASE; INO80 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MPPED2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CASP9 GENE; CDK1 GENE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DDX1 GENE; EMBRYO; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INO80 GENE; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MPPED2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PODOCYTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC47A1 GENE; ZEBRA FISH; AGED; ANIMAL; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; KIDNEY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

DANIO RERIO;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANIMALS; CASPASE 9; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA HELICASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84859224378     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002584     Document Type: Article

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