High Population Frequencies of APOL1 Risk Variants Are Associated with Increased Prevalence of Non-Diabetic Chronic Kidney Disease in the Igbo People from South-Eastern Nigeria

Ifeoma Ulasi,Shay Tzur,Walter G. Wasser,Revital Shemer,Etty Kruzel,Elena Feigin,Ck Ijoma,Obinna Onodugo,Julius U. Okoye,Eb Arodiwe,Ngozi Ifebunandu,Chinwe Chukwuka,Cajetan C. Onyedum,Uchenna Ijoma,Emmanuel Nna,Macaulay Onuigbo,Saharon Rosset,Karl Skorecki

High Population Frequencies of APOL1 Risk Variants Are Associated with Increased Prevalence of Non-Diabetic Chronic Kidney Disease in the Igbo People from South-Eastern Nigeria

2013

Ifeoma Ulasi
Shay Tzur
Walter G. Wasser
Revital Shemer
Etty Kruzel
Elena Feigin
Ck Ijoma
Obinna Onodugo
Julius U. Okoye
Eb Arodiwe
Ngozi Ifebunandu
Chinwe Chukwuka
Cajetan C. Onyedum
Uchenna Ijoma
Emmanuel Nna
Macaulay Onuigbo
Saharon Rosset
Karl Skorecki

Background: Continental Africa is facing an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD). APOL1 risk variants have been shown to be strongly associated with an increa

Keywords:

Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Intensive care medicine
HIV Nephropathy
Igbo
Immunology
Kidney disease
Internal medicine
Population
high population
non diabetic
south eastern

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