Genetics of diabetes mellitus and diabetes complications

JB Cole, JC Florez - Nature reviews nephrology, 2020 - nature.com
Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases worldwide, projected to affect 693 million
adults by 2045. Devastating macrovascular complications (cardiovascular disease) and …

Genetic susceptibility to chronic kidney disease–some more pieces for the heritability puzzle

M Cañadas-Garre, K Anderson, R Cappa… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major global health problem with an increasing
prevalence partly driven by aging population structure. Both genomic and environmental …

Genome-wide association analyses define pathogenic signaling pathways and prioritize drug targets for IgA nephropathy

K Kiryluk, E Sanchez-Rodriguez, XJ Zhou, F Zanoni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is a progressive form of kidney disease defined by glomerular
deposition of IgA. Here we performed a genome-wide association study of 10,146 kidney …

Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …

A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals

M Wuttke, Y Li, M Li, KB Sieber, MF Feitosa, M Gorski… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is responsible for a public health burden with multi-systemic
complications. Through trans-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of …

Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

S Shah, A Henry, C Roselli, H Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion
of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide …

Discovery and prioritization of variants and genes for kidney function in> 1.2 million individuals

KJ Stanzick, Y Li, P Schlosser, M Gorski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genes underneath signals from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for kidney
function are promising targets for functional studies, but prioritizing variants and genes is …

A fast and efficient colocalization algorithm for identifying shared genetic risk factors across multiple traits

CN Foley, JR Staley, PG Breen, BB Sun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genomic regions
affecting complex diseases. The next challenge is to elucidate the causal genes and …

Genome-wide association study of diabetic kidney disease highlights biology involved in glomerular basement membrane collagen

RM Salem, JN Todd, N Sandholm… - Journal of the …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background Although diabetic kidney disease demonstrates both familial clustering and
single nucleotide polymorphism heritability, the specific genetic factors influencing risk …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomics reveals gene expression dynamics of human fetal kidney development

M Hochane, PR van den Berg, X Fan… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The current understanding of mammalian kidney development is largely based on mouse
models. Recent landmark studies revealed pervasive differences in renal embryogenesis …