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Abstract
Diabetic nephropathy is a common, complex disease with a clear genetic predisposition. Human gene association studies are beginning to bear fruit by identifying gene loci that increase diabetic nephropathy risk. Chua et al. report a similar study in diabetic mice that reveals a major nephropathy locus on chromosome 8. Could this be a human nephropathy gene? Time will tell, but such findings will at least improve the use of mouse models of human kidney disease.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20706214 PMCID: PMC3863579 DOI: 10.1038/ki.2010.199
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Kidney Int ISSN: 0085-2538 Impact factor: 10.612