title: Risk factors: familial aggregation of ESRD in Europeans-is it in the genes?
abstract: A new population-based study of a Norwegian registry containing data on more than 5 million individuals has confirmed the existence of powerful familial clustering of complex aetiologies of end-stage renal disease. Novel strategies for identifying additional nephropathy risk genes will benefit from such large familial registries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
authors.forename: Barry I
authors.initials: BI
authors.lastname: Freedman
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
authors.forename: Todd W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010375:Pedigree; D012042:Registries; D018570:Risk Assessment