Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

The genetic architecture of membranous nephropathy and its potential to improve non-invasive diagnosis

  • Jingyuan Xie,
  • Lili Liu,
  • Nikol Mladkova,
  • Yifu Li,
  • Hong Ren,
  • Weiming Wang,
  • Zhao Cui,
  • Li Lin,
  • Xiaofan Hu,
  • Xialian Yu,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Yasar Caliskan,
  • Carlo Sidore,
  • Olivia Balderes,
  • Raphael J. Rosen,
  • Monica Bodria,
  • Francesca Zanoni,
  • Jun Y. Zhang,
  • Priya Krithivasan,
  • Karla Mehl,
  • Maddalena Marasa,
  • Atlas Khan,
  • Fatih Ozay,
  • Pietro A. Canetta,
  • Andrew S. Bomback,
  • Gerald B. Appel,
  • Simone Sanna-Cherchi,
  • Matthew G. Sampson,
  • Laura H. Mariani,
  • Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasinska,
  • Magdalena Durlik,
  • Krzysztof Mucha,
  • Barbara Moszczuk,
  • Bartosz Foroncewicz,
  • Leszek Pączek,
  • Ireneusz Habura,
  • Elisabet Ars,
  • Jose Ballarin,
  • Laila-Yasmin Mani,
  • Bruno Vogt,
  • Savas Ozturk,
  • Abdülmecit Yildiz,
  • Nurhan Seyahi,
  • Hakki Arikan,
  • Mehmet Koc,
  • Taner Basturk,
  • Gonca Karahan,
  • Sebahat Usta Akgul,
  • Mehmet Sukru Sever,
  • Dan Zhang,
  • Domenico Santoro,
  • Mario Bonomini,
  • Francesco Londrino,
  • Loreto Gesualdo,
  • Jana Reiterova,
  • Vladimir Tesar,
  • Claudia Izzi,
  • Silvana Savoldi,
  • Donatella Spotti,
  • Carmelita Marcantoni,
  • Piergiorgio Messa,
  • Marco Galliani,
  • Dario Roccatello,
  • Simona Granata,
  • Gianluigi Zaza,
  • Francesca Lugani,
  • GianMarco Ghiggeri,
  • Isabella Pisani,
  • Landino Allegri,
  • Ben Sprangers,
  • Jin-Ho Park,
  • BeLong Cho,
  • Yon Su Kim,
  • Dong Ki Kim,
  • Hitoshi Suzuki,
  • Antonio Amoroso,
  • Daniel C. Cattran,
  • Fernando C. Fervenza,
  • Antonello Pani,
  • Patrick Hamilton,
  • Shelly Harris,
  • Sanjana Gupta,
  • Chris Cheshire,
  • Stephanie Dufek,
  • Naomi Issler,
  • Ruth J. Pepper,
  • John Connolly,
  • Stephen Powis,
  • Detlef Bockenhauer,
  • Horia C. Stanescu,
  • Neil Ashman,
  • Ruth J. F. Loos,
  • Eimear E. Kenny,
  • Matthias Wuttke,
  • Kai-Uwe Eckardt,
  • Anna Köttgen,
  • Julia M. Hofstra,
  • Marieke J. H. Coenen,
  • Lambertus A. Kiemeney,
  • Shreeram Akilesh,
  • Matthias Kretzler,
  • Lawrence H. Beck,
  • Benedicte Stengel,
  • Hanna Debiec,
  • Pierre Ronco,
  • Jack F. M. Wetzels,
  • Magdalena Zoledziewska,
  • Francesco Cucca,
  • Iuliana Ionita-Laza,
  • Hajeong Lee,
  • Elion Hoxha,
  • Rolf A. K. Stahl,
  • Paul Brenchley,
  • Francesco Scolari,
  • Ming-hui Zhao,
  • Ali G. Gharavi,
  • Robert Kleta,
  • Nan Chen,
  • Krzysztof Kiryluk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15383-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a rare autoimmune disease of podocyte-directed antibodies, such as anti-phospholipase A2 receptor. Here, the authors report a genome-wide association study for MN and identify two previously unreported loci encompassing the NFKB1 and IRF4 genes and additional ancestry-specific effects.