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. 2022 Nov;102(5):954-955.
doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2022.08.004. Epub 2022 Aug 17.

Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score

Zhi Yu  1 , Matthias Wuttke  2
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Including APOL1 alleles and ancestry adjustments improve a genome-wide polygenic CKD score

Zhi Yu et al. Kidney Int. 2022 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: APOL1; chronic kidney disease; genome-wide polygenic score; multi-ancestry; risk prediction; translational.

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  • Genome-wide polygenic score to predict chronic kidney disease across ancestries.
    Khan A, Turchin MC, Patki A, Srinivasasainagendra V, Shang N, Nadukuru R, Jones AC, Malolepsza E, Dikilitas O, Kullo IJ, Schaid DJ, Karlson E, Ge T, Meigs JB, Smoller JW, Lange C, Crosslin DR, Jarvik GP, Bhatraju PK, Hellwege JN, Chandler P, Torvik LR, Fedotov A, Liu C, Kachulis C, Lennon N, Abul-Husn NS, Cho JH, Ionita-Laza I, Gharavi AG, Chung WK, Hripcsak G, Weng C, Nadkarni G, Irvin MR, Tiwari HK, Kenny EE, Limdi NA, Kiryluk K. Khan A, et al. Nat Med. 2022 Jul;28(7):1412-1420. doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01869-1. Epub 2022 Jun 16. Nat Med. 2022. PMID: 35710995 Free PMC article.

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