Genomic approaches to the burden of kidney disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Kidney Disease Research Network

Kidney Int. 2016 Jul;90(1):2-5. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2015.12.059.

¹ School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Electronic address: ceyosafo@gmail.com.
² Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria.
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria.
⁷ Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
⁸ Department of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰ Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹¹ National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹² School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
¹³ Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
¹⁴ Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: APOL 1; Africa; chronic kidney disease; genomics.

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