The MYH9/APOL1 region and chronic kidney disease in European-Americans

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

(2010) Shay Tzur et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

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

(2010) Doron M. Behar et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

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

(2010) George W. Nelson et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

The Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) Gene and Nondiabetic Nephropathy in African Americans

(2010) B. I. Freedman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY

Worldwide Distribution of the MYH9 Kidney Disease Susceptibility Alleles and Haplotypes: Evidence of Historical Selection in Africa

(2010) Taras K. Oleksyk et al.   PLoS One

Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans

(2010) G. Genovese et al.   SCIENCE

The association of the MYH9 gene and kidney outcomes in American Indians: the Strong Heart Family Study

(2009) Nora Franceschini et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Polymorphisms in the non-muscle myosin heavy chain 9 gene (MYH9) are strongly associated with end-stage renal disease historically attributed to hypertension in African Americans

(2009) Barry I. Freedman et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Non-muscle myosin heavy chain 9 gene MYH9 associations in African Americans with clinically diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated ESRD

(2009) B. I. Freedman et al.   NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION

Evaluation of HapMap data in six populations of European descent

(2008) Per E Lundmark et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A critical evaluation of genomic control methods for genetic association studies

(2008) Tony Dadd et al.   GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

Accounting for ancestry: population substructure and genome-wide association studies

(2008) C. Tian et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Natural selection has driven population differentiation in modern humans

(2008) Luis B Barreiro et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

Discerning the Ancestry of European Americans in Genetic Association Studies

(2008) Alkes L. Price et al.   PLoS Genetics