Asahi Hishida, Masahiro Nakatochi, Yoichi Sutoh, Shiori Nakano, Yukihide Momozawa, Akira Narita, Kozo Tanno, Atsushi Shimizu, Atsushi Hozawa, Kengo Kinoshita, Taiki Yamaji, Atsushi Goto, Mitsuhiko Noda, Norie Sawada, Hiroaki Ikezaki, Mako Nagayoshi, Megumi Hara, Sadao Suzuki, Teruhide Koyama, Chihaya Koriyama, Sakurako Katsuura-Kamano, Aya Kadota, Kiyonori Kuriki, Masayuki Yamamoto, Makoto Sasaki, Motoki Iwasaki, Keitaro Matsuo, Kenji Wakai
BACKGROUND: Genetic epidemiological evidence for the kidney function traits in East Asian population including Japanese remain still relatively unclarified. Especially, the number of GWASs for kidney traits reported still remains limited, and the sample size of each independent study is relatively small. Given the genetic variability between ancestries/ethnicities, implementation of GWAS with sufficiently large sample sizes in specific population of Japanese is considered meaningful. METHODS: We conducted the GWAS meta-analyses of kidney traits by leveraging the GWAS summary data of the representative large genome cohort studies with about 200,000 Japanese participants (n = 202,406 for estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] and n = 200,845 for serum creatinine [SCr])...
April 6, 2024: Journal of Epidemiology