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Anna Köttgen
Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Köttgen, Qiong Yang
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Renal Division, Freiburg University Clinic, Freiburg, Germany
Qiong Yang
Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Köttgen, Qiong Yang
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
Lawrence C. Shimmin
Affiliation: Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Adrienne Tin
Affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Céline Schaeffer
Affiliation: Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Josef Coresh
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Xuan Liu
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
Luca Rampoldi
Affiliation: Dulbecco Telethon Institute and Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Shih-Jen Hwang
Affiliation: NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachussets, United States of America
Eric Boerwinkle
Affiliation: Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
James E. Hixson
Affiliation: Human Genetics Center, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, UT-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America
W. H. Linda Kao
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Caroline S. Fox
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachussets, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussets, United States of America
Introduction
Chronic kidney disease affects 5–10% of adults worldwide [1], and is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular...