Heart disease and stroke statistics—2018 update: a report from the American Heart Association

EJ Benjamin, SS Virani, CW Callaway… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …

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 …

MendelianRandomization: an R package for performing Mendelian randomization analyses using summarized data

OO Yavorska, S Burgess - International journal of epidemiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
MendelianRandomization is a software package for the R open-source software
environment that performs Mendelian randomization analyses using summarized data. The …

Discovery of 318 new risk loci for type 2 diabetes and related vascular outcomes among 1.4 million participants in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis

M Vujkovic, JM Keaton, JA Lynch, DR Miller, J Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We investigated type 2 diabetes (T2D) genetic susceptibility via multi-ancestry meta-analysis
of 228,499 cases and 1,178,783 controls in the Million Veteran Program (MVP), DIAMANTE …

Single-cell transcriptomics of the mouse kidney reveals potential cellular targets of kidney disease

J Park, R Shrestha, C Qiu, A Kondo, S Huang, M Werth… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Our understanding of kidney disease pathogenesis is limited by an incomplete molecular
characterization of the cell types responsible for the organ's multiple homeostatic functions …

Mendelian randomization as an approach to assess causality using observational data

P Sekula, M Fabiola Del Greco, C Pattaro… - Journal of the …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Mendelian randomization refers to an analytic approach to assess the causality of an
observed association between a modifiable exposure or risk factor and a clinically relevant …

Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy

A Levin, M Tonelli, J Bonventre, J Coresh, JA Donner… - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
The global nephrology community recognises the need for a cohesive plan to address the
problem of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In July, 2016, the International Society of …

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 …

Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases

M Kanai, M Akiyama, A Takahashi, N Matoba… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Clinical measurements can be viewed as useful intermediate phenotypes to promote
understanding of complex human diseases. To acquire comprehensive insights into the …

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease

H Liu, T Doke, D Guo, X Sheng, Z Ma, J Park, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
More than 800 million people suffer from kidney disease, yet the mechanism of kidney
dysfunction is poorly understood. In the present study, we define the genetic association with …