The largest GWAS for kidney function so far provided the starting point for integrated multi-stage annotation of genetic loci. Whole kidney and single-cell epigenomic information is crucial for translating GWAS information to the identification of causal genes and pathogenetic (and potentially targetable) cellular and molecular mechanisms of kidney disease.
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This is a summary of: Liu, H. A. et al. Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease. Nat. Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01097-w (2022).
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Linking genetic variants to kidney disease via the epigenome. Nat Genet 54, 922–923 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01098-9
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