Genetic variants of calcium and vitamin D metabolism in kidney stone disease
Kidney stones form in the presence of overabundance of crystal-forming substances such as Ca2+ and oxalate. Here, the authors report genome-wide association analyses for kidney stone disease, report seven previously unknown loci and find that some of these loci also associate with Ca2+ concentration...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13145-x |