Podocyte-Specific Deletion of Myh9 Encoding Nonmuscle Myosin Heavy Chain 2A Predisposes Mice to Glomerulopathy

Genetic Heterogeneity in Human Disease

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Missense mutations in the APOL1 gene are highly associated with end stage kidney disease risk previously attributed to the MYH9 gene

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African ancestry allelic variation at the MYH9 gene contributes to increased susceptibility to non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease in Hispanic Americans

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Dense mapping of MYH9 localizes the strongest kidney disease associations to the region of introns 13 to 15

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Autophagy influences glomerular disease susceptibility and maintains podocyte homeostasis in aging mice

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A High-Powered View of the Filtration Barrier

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Patients with Epstein–Fechtner syndromes owing to MYH9 R702 mutations develop progressive proteinuric renal disease

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Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans

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Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in HIV-Associated Nephropathy: A Focus on the MYH9 Nephropathy Susceptibility Gene

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CKD in MYH9-Related Disorders

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Polymorphisms in the Nonmuscle Myosin Heavy Chain 9 Gene (MYH9) Are Associated with Albuminuria in Hypertensive African Americans: The HyperGEN Study

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Podocyte polarity signalling

(2009) Matias Simons et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEPHROLOGY AND HYPERTENSION

Genetics of nephrotic syndrome: connecting molecular genetics to podocyte physiology

(2009) E. Machuca et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Susceptibility loci for murine HIV-associated nephropathy encode trans-regulators of podocyte gene expression

(2009) Natalia Papeta et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Slit Diaphragms Contain Tight Junction Proteins

(2009) H. Fukasawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

Hypertension-Associated Kidney Disease: Perhaps no More

(2008) B. I. Freedman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans

(2008) W H Linda Kao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

MYH9 is a major-effect risk gene for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

(2008) Jeffrey B Kopp et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Nonmuscle myosin II moves in new directions

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