Worldwide frequencies of APOL1 renal risk variants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 379, Issue 26, 2018, Pages 2571-2572

  Dkarni, Girish N ^a   Gnoux, Christopher R ^b   Sorokin, Elena P ^c   Daya, Michelle ^b   Rahman, Rayees ^a   Barnes, Kathleen C ^b   Wassel, Christina L ^d   Kenny, Eimear E ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLELE; APOL1 GENE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; RISK;

APOL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; APOLIPOPROTEIN L1;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; APOLIPOPROTEIN L1; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; RISK;

EID: 85059228863     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1800748     Document Type: Letter

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