title: Glomerular disease in 2011: New clues to environmental influences in glomerular disease.
abstract: Research into genetic susceptibilities for proteinuric glomerular diseases has uncovered key pathogenic contributions from inheritable defects in podocytes. However, much less is known about environmental factors that may initiate or propagate podocyte injury. Seminal reports in 2011 provided new mechanistic insights into how this may occur.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. nelsonpj@uw.edu
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Alpers
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus; D012307:Risk Factors