COGENT-Kidney Consortium eGFR GWAS

Dataset

Note that the samples in this dataset overlap with those in the Biobank Japan GWAS and CKDGen GWAS datasets.

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Publications

Trans-ethnic kidney function association study reveals putative causal genes and effects on kidney-specific disease aetiologies.
Morris AP, et al.
Nat Commun. 2019 Jan 3;10(1):29. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07867-7

Dataset phenotypes

  • eGFR-creat (serum creatinine)

Dataset subjects

In addition to the COGENT-K cohorts listed below, this study included cohorts from the BioBank Japan GWAS and CKDGen GWAS datasets.

Samples Cohort Ancestry
11,758 Australian Twin-Family Studies (AUSTWIN) European
23,536 BioBank Japan Project (BBJ) East Asian
2,749 BioME Biobank (BioME-HAAA) Hispanic
354 BioME Biobank (BioME-HANA) Hispanic
597 Genetics of Latinos Diabetic Retinopathy (GOLDR) Hispanic
12,599 Hispanic Community Health Study and Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Hispanic
721 Mexican American Hypertension and Insulin Resistance (HTNIR) Hispanic
586 Mexico City (MC11) Hispanic
361 Mexico City (MC12) Hispanic
895 Mexico City (MC2A) Hispanic
888 Mexico City (MC2U) Hispanic
2,083 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Hispanic
962 Northern Manhattan Family Study (NOMAS) Hispanic
944 Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors (PIVUS) European
1,080 Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM) European
4,116 Women’s Health Initiative Genome-wide Association Research Network into Effects of Treatment (WHI-GARNET) European
5,655 Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS+) European
8,224 Women’s Health Initiative SNP Health Association Resource: African Americans (WHI-SHARe-A) African American
3,549 Women’s Health Initiative SNP Health Association Resource: Hispanic Americans (WHI-SHARe-H) Hispanic

Experiment summary

This study, from the Continental Origins and Genetic Epidemiology Network Kidney (COGENT-Kidney) Consortium, is a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genetic associations with kidney function, as measured by eGFR.

Dataset ID
GWAS_COGENTK