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Emergence of an Israel faith-based community organization facilitating live donor kidney transplantation by Wasser, Walter G, Boner, Geoffrey, Koslowsky, Meni, Lazar, Adi

“…The 2014 Consensus Conference on Best Practices in Living Kidney Donations recognized live donor kidney transplantation as the best treatment for late-stage…”
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Population genetics of chronic kidney disease: the evolving story of APOL1 by Wasser, Walter G, Tzur, Shay, Wolday, Dawit, Adu, Dwomoa, Baumstein, Donald, Rosset, Saharon, Skorecki, Karl

“…Advances in human genome sequencing and generation of public databases of genomic diversity enable nephrologists to re-examine the genetics of common, complex…”
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APOL1 nephropathy: from gene to mechanisms of kidney injury by Kruzel-Davila, Etty, Wasser, Walter G, Aviram, Sharon, Skorecki, Karl

“…The contribution of African ancestry to the risk of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and chronic kidney disease has been partially explained by the recently…”
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Admixture mapping of end stage kidney disease genetic susceptibility using estimated mutual information ancestry informative markers by Shlush, Liran I, Bercovici, Sivan, Wasser, Walter G, Yudkovsky, Guennady, Templeton, Alan, Geiger, Dan, Skorecki, Karl

“…The question of a genetic contribution to the higher prevalence and incidence of end stage kidney disease (ESKD) among African Americans (AA) remained…”
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Missense mutations in the APOL1 gene are highly associated with end stage kidney disease risk previously attributed to the MYH9 gene by Tzur, Shay, Rosset, Saharon, Shemer, Revital, Yudkovsky, Guennady, Selig, Sara, Tarekegn, Ayele, Bekele, Endashaw, Bradman, Neil, Wasser, Walter G, Behar, Doron M, Skorecki, Karl

“…MYH9 has been proposed as a major genetic risk locus for a spectrum of nondiabetic end stage kidney disease (ESKD). We use recently released sequences from the…”
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APOL1-Mediated Cell Injury Involves Disruption of Conserved Trafficking Processes by Kruzel-Davila, Etty, Shemer, Revital, Ofir, Ayala, Bavli-Kertselli, Ira, Darlyuk-Saadon, Ilona, Oren-Giladi, Pazit, Wasser, Walter G, Magen, Daniella, Zaknoun, Eid, Schuldiner, Maya, Salzberg, Adi, Kornitzer, Daniel, Marelja, Zvonimir, Simons, Matias, Skorecki, Karl

“…harbors C-terminal sequence variants (G1 and G2), which account for much of the increased risk for kidney disease in sub-Saharan African ancestry populations…”
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APOL1 Nephropathy: A Population Genetics and Evolutionary Medicine Detective Story by Kruzel-Davila, Etty, Wasser, Walter G., Skorecki, Karl

“…Common DNA sequence variants rarely have a high-risk association with a common disease. When such associations do occur, evolutionary forces must be sought,…”
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APOL1 allelic variants are associated with lower age of dialysis initiation and thereby increased dialysis vintage in African and Hispanic Americans with non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease by TZUR, Shay, ROSSET, Saharon, SKORECKI, Karl, WASSER, Walter G

“…The APOL1 G1 and G2 genetic variants make a major contribution to the African ancestry risk for a number of common forms of non-diabetic end-stage kidney…”
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Linkage disequilibrium analysis reveals an albuminuria risk haplotype containing three missense mutations in the cubilin gene with striking differences among European and African ancestry populations by Tzur, Shay, Wasser, Walter G, Rosset, Saharon, Skorecki, Karl

“…A recent meta-analysis described a variant (p.Ile2984Val) in the cubilin gene (CUBN) that is associated with levels of albuminuria in the general population…”
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The Envy of Scholars: Applying the Lessons of the Framingham Heart Study to the Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease by Wasser, Walter G, Gil, Amnon, Skorecki, Karl L

“…During the past 50 years, a dramatic reduction in the mortality rate associated with cardiovascular disease has occurred in the US and other countries…”
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Erratum to “Endobronchial Enigma: A Clinically Rare Presentation of Nocardia beijingensis in an Immunocompetent Patient” by Fruchter, Oren, Wasser, Walter G., Izhakain, Shimon, Abdel-Rahman, Nader, Kramer, Mordechai R.

“…In the article titled “Endobronchial Enigma: A Clinically Rare Presentation of Nocardia beijingensis in an Immunocompetent Patient,” [1] the name of the second…”
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Beyond APOL1: Genetic Inroads into Understanding Population Disparities in Diabetic Kidney Disease by Skorecki, Karl, Wasser, Walter G

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Hypertension-misattributed kidney disease in African Americans by Skorecki, Karl L, Wasser, Walter G

“…Lipkowitz et al. extend the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension to the level of genetic epidemiology, in a case-control study design…”
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APOL1 Risk Variants Predict Histopathology and Progression to ESRD in HIV-Related Kidney Disease by FINE, Derek M, WASSER, Walter G, ESTRELLA, Michelle M, ATTA, Mohamed G, KUPERMAN, Michael, SHEMER, Revital, RAJASEKARAN, Arun, TZUR, Shay, RACUSEN, Lorraine C, SKORECKI, Karl

“…With earlier institution of antiretroviral therapy, kidney diseases other than HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) predominate in HIV-infected persons. Outcomes…”
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Endobronchial Enigma: A Clinically Rare Presentation of Nocardia beijingensis in an Immunocompetent Patient by Fruchter, Oren, Wasser, Walter G., Izhakain, Shimon, Abdel-Rahman, Nader, Kramer, Mordechai R.

“…Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection caused by the Gram-positive weakly acid-fast, filamentous aerobic Actinomycetes. The lungs are the primary site of…”
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Long-term outcomes of metallic endobronchial stents in lung transplant recipients are not affected by bacterial colonization by Izhakian, Shimon, Wasser, Walter G, Vainshelboim, Baruch, Pertzov, Barak, Gorelik, Oleg, Kramer, Mordechai R

“…Abstract OBJECTIVES We evaluated associations of endobronchial stenting with airway bacterial colonization, the antimicrobial resistance profile,…”
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Hemostatic Factors, APOL1, and ESRD Risk: Another Piece of the Puzzle? by Wasser, Walter G, Kruzel-Davila, Etty

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Brenner & Rector's the kidney by Marsden, Philip A, Skorecki, Karl, Taal, Maarten W, Yu, Alan S. L, Chertow, Glenn M, Luyckx, Valerie

“…Put the world's most well-known kidney reference to work in your practice with the 11th Edition of Brenner & Rector's The Kidney. This two-volume masterwork…”
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A null variant in the apolipoprotein L3 gene is associated with non-diabetic nephropathy by Skorecki, Karl L, Lee, Jessica H, Langefeld, Carl D, Rosset, Saharon, Tzur, Shay, Wasser, Walter G, Shemer, Revital, Hawkins, Gregory A, Divers, Jasmin, Parekh, Rulan S, Li, Man, Sampson, Matthew G, Kretzler, Matthias, Pollak, Martin R, Shah, Shrijal, Blackler, Daniel, Nichols, Brendan, Wilmot, Michael, Alper, Seth L, Freedman, Barry I, Friedman, David J

“…Inheritance of apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) renal-risk variants in a recessive pattern strongly associates with non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease (ESKD)…”
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The population genetics of chronic kidney disease: insights from the MYH9–APOL1 locus by Rosset, Saharon, Tzur, Shay, Behar, Doron M., Wasser, Walter G., Skorecki, Karl

“…Population-based genetic studies initially identified MYH9 as a major susceptibility locus for diabetes-unrelated kidney diseases in persons of West African…”
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