Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Kidney cytosine methylation changes improve renal function decline estimation in patients with diabetic kidney disease

  • Caroline Gluck,
  • Chengxiang Qiu,
  • Sang Youb Han,
  • Matthew Palmer,
  • Jihwan Park,
  • Yi-An Ko,
  • Yuting Guan,
  • Xin Sheng,
  • Robert L. Hanson,
  • Jing Huang,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Ae Seo Deok Park,
  • Maria Concepcion Izquierdo,
  • Ioannis Mantzaris,
  • Amit Verma,
  • James Pullman,
  • Hongzhe Li,
  • Katalin Susztak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10378-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Patients with diabetes commonly develop diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Here Gluck et al. identify a set of probes differentially methylated in renal samples from patients with DKD, and find that inclusion of these methylation probes improves current prediction models of renal function decline.