Risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in young adults with end-stage renal disease: an analysis of the US renal data system

ZJ Modi, Y Lu, N Ji, A Kapke, DT Selewski… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death among patients with
end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Young adult (ages 22-29 years) have risks for ESRD …

APOL1 genotype and renal function of black living donors

MD Doshi, M Ortigosa-Goggins, AX Garg… - Journal of the …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Black living kidney donors are at higher risk of developing kidney disease than white
donors. We examined the effect of the APOL1 high-risk genotype on postdonation renal …

APOL1 nephropathy: a population genetics and evolutionary medicine detective story

E Kruzel-Davila, WG Wasser, K Skorecki - Seminars in nephrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Common DNA sequence variants rarely have a high-risk association with a common
disease. When such associations do occur, evolutionary forces must be sought, such as in …

[HTML][HTML] APOL1 risk variants and kidney disease: what we know so far

TA Siemens, MC Riella, TP Moraes… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
There are striking differences in chronic kidney disease between Caucasians and African
descendants. It was widely accepted that this occurred due to socioeconomic factors, but …

Kidney disease-associated APOL1 variants have dose-dependent, dominant toxic gain-of-function

S Datta, R Kataria, JY Zhang, S Moore… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background Two coding renal risk variants (RRVs) of the APOL1 gene (G1 and G2) are
associated with large increases in CKD rates among populations of recent African descent …

[HTML][HTML] The kidney evaluation of living kidney donor candidates: US practices in 2017

N Garg, KL Lentine, LA Inker, AX Garg… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We surveyed US transplant programs to assess practices used to assess kidney health in
living kidney donor candidates in 2017; the response rate was 31%. In this report, we focus …

APOL1 Risk Variants and Cardiovascular Disease: Results From the AASK (African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension)

TK Chen, LJ Appel, ME Grams, A Tin… - … , and vascular biology, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective—Among African Americans, the apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) risk variants have
been associated with various types of kidney disease and chronic kidney disease …

APOL1 Nephropathy Risk Variants and Incident Cardiovascular Disease Events in Community-Dwelling Black Adults

OM Gutiérrez, MR Irvin, NS Chaudhary… - Circulation: Genomic …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: APOL1 renal risk variants are strongly associated with chronic kidney disease
in Black adults, but reported associations with cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been …

[HTML][HTML] Strict blood pressure control associates with decreased mortality risk by APOL1 genotype

E Ku, MS Lipkowitz, LJ Appel, A Parsa, J Gassman… - Kidney international, 2017 - Elsevier
Although APOL1 high-risk genotype partially accounts for the increased susceptibility of
blacks to chronic kidney disease (CKD), whether APOL1 associates differentially with …

[HTML][HTML] APOL1 renal-risk variants do not associate with incident cardiovascular disease or mortality in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial

BI Freedman, MV Rocco, JT Bates, M Chonchol… - Kidney international …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction Relationships between apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) renal-risk variants
(RRVs) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) remain controversial. To clarify associations …