Genetic loci and prioritization of genes for kidney function decline derived from a meta-analysis of 62 longitudinal genome-wide association studies.

Link: https://doi.org/S0085-2538(22)00454-9 Authors: Gorski, Mathias; Rasheed, Humaira; Teumer, Alexander; Thomas, Laurent F; Graham, Sarah E; Sveinbjornsson, Gardar; Winkler, Thomas W; Günther, Felix; Stark, Klaus J; Chai, Jin-Fang; Tayo, Bamidele O; Wuttke, Matthias; Li, Yong; Tin, Adrienne; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S; Ärnlöv, Johan; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Bakker, Stephan J L; Banas, Bernhard; Bansal, Nisha; Biggs, Mary L;…

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Insights From a Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Study of Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Hypertension.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.19324 Authors: Kelly, Tanika N; Sun, Xiao; He, Karen Y; Brown, Michael R; Taliun, Sarah A Gagliano; Hellwege, Jacklyn N; Irvin, Marguerite R; Mi, Xuenan; Brody, Jennifer A; Franceschini, Nora; Guo, Xiuqing; Hwang, Shih-Jen; de Vries, Paul S; Gao, Yan; Moscati, Arden; Nadkarni, Girish N; Yanek, Lisa R; Elfassy, Tali; Smith, Jennifer A; Chung,…

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Design and rationale of GUARDD-US: A pragmatic, randomized trial of genetic testing for APOL1 and pharmacogenomic predictors of antihypertensive efficacy in patients with hypertension.

Link: https://doi.org/S1551-7144(22)00139-2 Authors: Eadon, Michael T; Cavanaugh, Kerri L; Orlando, Lori A; Christian, David; Chakraborty, Hrishikesh; Steen-Burrell, Kady-Ann; Merrill, Peter; Seo, Janet; Hauser, Diane; Singh, Rajbir; Beasley, Cherry Maynor; Fuloria, Jyotsna; Kitzman, Heather; Parker, Alexander S; Ramos, Michelle; Ong, Henry H; Elwood, Erica N; Lynch, Sheryl E; Clermont, Sabrina; Cicali, Emily J; Starostik, Petr; Pratt,…

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Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01058-3 Authors: Mahajan, Anubha; Spracklen, Cassandra N; Zhang, Weihua; Ng, Maggie C Y; Petty, Lauren E; Kitajima, Hidetoshi; Yu, Grace Z; Rüeger, Sina; Speidel, Leo; Kim, Young Jin; Horikoshi, Momoko; Mercader, Josep M; Taliun, Daniel; Moon, Sanghoon; Kwak, Soo-Heon; Robertson, Neil R; Rayner, Nigel W; Loh, Marie; Kim, Bong-Jo; Chiou, Joshua; Miguel-Escalada, Irene; Della…

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Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04576-6 Authors: Kousathanas, Athanasios; Pairo-Castineira, Erola; Rawlik, Konrad; Stuckey, Alex; Odhams, Christopher A; Walker, Susan; Russell, Clark D; Malinauskas, Tomas; Wu, Yang; Millar, Jonathan; Shen, Xia; Elliott, Katherine S; Griffiths, Fiona; Oosthuyzen, Wilna; Morrice, Kirstie; Keating, Sean; Wang, Bo; Rhodes, Daniel; Klaric, Lucija; Zechner, Marie; Parkinson, Nick; Siddiq, Afshan; Goddard, Peter; Donovan, Sally; Maslove,…

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Incidence, prevalence and mortality of chronic periaortitis: a population-based study.

Link: https://doi.org/10.55563/clinexprheumatol/0v8l4j Authors: Koster, Matthew J; Ghaffar, Umar; Duong, Stephanie Q; Crowson, Cynthia S; Burke, Michelle M; Viers, Boyd R; Potretzke, Aaron M; Bjarnason, Haraldur; Warrington, Kenneth J Abstract: To evaluate the epidemiology, presentation and outcomes of patients with chronic periaortitis from 1998 through 2018. An inception cohort of patients with incident chronic periaortitis from…

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Clinical Utility of KidneyIntelX in Early Stages of Diabetic Kidney Disease in the CANVAS Trial.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1159/000519920 Authors: Lam, David; Nadkarni, Girish N; Mosoyan, Gohar; Neal, Bruce; Mahaffey, Kenneth W; Rosenthal, Norman; Hansen, Michael K; Heerspink, Hiddo J L; Fleming, Fergus; Coca, Steven G Abstract: KidneyIntelX is a composite risk score, incorporating biomarkers and clinical variables for predicting progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The utility of this score in…

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The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3 Authors: Graham, Sarah E; Clarke, Shoa L; Wu, Kuan-Han H; Kanoni, Stavroula; Zajac, Greg J M; Ramdas, Shweta; Surakka, Ida; Ntalla, Ioanna; Vedantam, Sailaja; Winkler, Thomas W; Locke, Adam E; Marouli, Eirini; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Han, Sohee; Narita, Akira; Choudhury, Ananyo; Bentley, Amy R; Ekoru, Kenneth; Verma, Anurag; Trivedi, Bhavi; Martin, Hilary C;…

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Identification of discriminative gene-level and protein-level features associated with pathogenic gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants.

Link: https://doi.org/S0002-9297(21)00384-0 Authors: Sevim Bayrak, Cigdem; Stein, David; Jain, Aayushee; Chaudhary, Kumardeep; Nadkarni, Girish N; Van Vleck, Tielman T; Puel, Anne; Boisson-Dupuis, Stephanie; Okada, Satoshi; Stenson, Peter D; Cooper, David N; Schlessinger, Avner; Itan, Yuval Abstract: Identifying whether a given genetic mutation results in a gene product with increased (gain-of-function; GOF) or diminished (loss-of-function; LOF)…

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