Functional genomic annotation of genetic risk loci highlights inflammation and epithelial biology networks in CKD

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 692-714

  Ledo, Nora ^a   Ko, Yi An ^a   Park, Ae Seo Deok ^a   Kang, Hyun Mi ^a   Han, Sang Youb ^a,b   Choi, Peter ^a   Susztak, Katalin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN 2; PROCOLLAGEN; SODIUM PHOSPHATE COTRANSPORTER; SODIUM PHOSPHATE COTRANSPORTER 2A; TAMM HORSFALL GLYCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UMOD PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAM47E GENE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE KINASE GENE; PLEXIN DOMAIN CONTAINING 1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLOMERULUS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; UROTHELIUM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; UROMODULIN; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 84924031154     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2014010028     Document Type: Article

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