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You Are Just Now Telling Us About This? African American Perspectives of Testing for Genetic Susceptibility to Kidney Disease.

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Variants of the APOL1 gene, which encodes apo L1, confer increased risk for CKD, ESKD, and reduced cadaveric kidney transplant survival, and likely contribute to kidney disease disparities among African… Click to show full abstract

Variants of the APOL1 gene, which encodes apo L1, confer increased risk for CKD, ESKD, and reduced cadaveric kidney transplant survival, and likely contribute to kidney disease disparities among African American individuals in the United States. To date, few studies have gathered African Americans

Keywords: african american; american perspectives; telling african; kidney; kidney disease

Journal Title: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
Year Published: 2019

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