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SUBMITTER: Purswani MU
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4981510 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 20160901 1
APOL1 renal risk alleles are associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults, with the strongest effect being for HIV-associated nephropathy. Their role in youth with perinatal HIV-1 infection (PHIV) has not been studied. In a nested case-control study of 451 PHIV participants in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study, we found a 3.5-fold increased odds of CKD in those carrying high-risk APOL1 genotypes using a recessive model [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2 to 10.0]. We report an unadjus ...[more]