Trans-ethnic kidney function association study reveals putative causal genes and effects on kidney-specific disease aetiologies

Andrew P Morris; Thu H Le; Haojia Wu; Artur Akbarov; Peter J van der Most; Gibran Hemani; George Davey Smith; Anubha Mahajan; Kyle J Gaulton; Girish N Nadkarni; Adan Valladares-Salgado; Niels Wacher-Rodarte; Josyf C Mychaleckyj; Nicole D Dueker; Xiuqing Guo; Yang Hai; Jeffrey Haessler; Yoichiro Kamatani; Adrienne M Stilp; Gu Zhu; James P Cook; Johan Arnlov; Susan H Blanton; Martin H de Borst; Erwin P Bottinger; Thomas A Buchanan; Sylvia Cechova; Fadi J Charchar; Pei-Lun Chu; Jeffrey Damman; James Eales; Ali G Gharavi; Vilmantas Giedraitis; Andrew C Heath; Eli Ipp; Krzysztof Kiryluk; Holly J Kramer; Michiaki Kubo; Anders Larsson; Cecilia M Lindgren; Yingchang Lu; Pamela AF Madden; Grant W Montgomery; George J Papanicolaou; Leslie J Raffel; Ralph L Sacco; Elena Sanchez; Holger Stark; Johan Sundstrom; Kent D Taylor; Anny H Xiang; Aleksandra Zivkovic; Lars Lind; Erik Ingelsson; Nicholas G Martin; John B Whitfield; Jianwen Cai; Cathy C Laurie; Yukinori Okada; Koichi Matsuda; Charles Kooperberg; Yii-Der Ida Chen; Tatjana Rundek; Stephen S Rich; Ruth JF Loos; Esteban J Parra; Miguel Cruz; Jerome Rotter; Harold Snieder; Maciej Tomaszewski; Benjamin D Humphreys; Nora Franceschini

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Trans-ethnic kidney function association study reveals putative causal genes and effects on kidney-specific disease aetiologies

Andrew P Morris, Thu H Le, Haojia Wu, Artur Akbarov, Peter J van der Most, Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith, Anubha Mahajan, Kyle J Gaulton, Girish N Nadkarni, Adan Valladares-Salgado, Niels Wacher-Rodarte, Josyf C Mychaleckyj, Nicole D Dueker, Xiuqing Guo, Yang Hai, Jeffrey Haessler, Yoichiro Kamatani, Adrienne M Stilp, Gu Zhu Show all

Nature Communications | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07867-7

University of Melbourne Researchers

Fadi Charchar Author Physiology

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Funding Acknowledgements

T.H.L. is supported by the NIH (R01-DK-113632). G.H. is supported by the Wellcome Trust (208806/Z/17/Z). G.H. and G.D.S. work in the Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol (MC_UU_00011/1). C.M.L. is supported by the Li Ka Shing Foundation, WT-SSI/John Fell funds, the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Widenlife and the NIH (5P50-HD-028138-27). R.L.S. and T.R. are supported by the NIH (R37-NS-029993 and U54-TR-002736) and the Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute. H.S. and A. Z. are supported by the DFG (INST 208/664-1). M.T. is supported the British Heart Foundation (PG/17/35/33001) and Kidney Research UK (RP_017_20180302). N.F. is supported by the NIH (R01-MD-012765, R56-DK-104806, and R01-DK-117445-01A1). Additional funding and acknowledgements can be found in Supplementary Note 1.