2 results match your criteria: "Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.[Affiliation]"
Bi- and Monoallelic Variants and Chronic Kidney Disease in West Africans.
N Engl J Med
January 2025
From the Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham (R.A.G.), and the Departments of Medicine (B.I.F.) and Biochemistry (N.D.P.), Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem - both in North Carolina; the Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (I.U.), the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan (S. Ajayi, Y.R., A.D.A., A. Asinobi, O. Amodu, B.L.S.), the Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Ilorin (T.O.), the Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (F.A.), the Department of Medicine, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria (M. Mamven), the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos (T.A.), the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Lagos State University, Ojo (A.S., O. Awobusuyi), the Department of Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (M. Makusidi), Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi (U.O.), Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara (O.O.), and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano (A. Abdu) - all in Nigeria; the Department of Medicine, University of Ghana Medical School (C.O., M. Matekole, V.A., V.B., D.A.), and Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana (A.N., A.G.), Accra, the Department of Medicine, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast (I.E.), and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (J.P.-R., S. Antwi) - all in Ghana; the Basic Research Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick (C.A.W.), the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute (A.A.A.), and the Division of Kidney, Urologic and Digestive Disease, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (P.L.K.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda - all in Maryland; the Departments of Human Genetics (D.B.), Medicine (M.K.), and Pathology (J.B.H.), University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University, Chicago (R.C., B.T.); the Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (T.O.I.), the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (M.R.P.), and the Departments of Pathology (B.C.) and Medicine (W.W.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School - all in Boston; the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson (F.C.B.); the Departments of Biostatistics and Data Science (M.P., J.S.) and Medicine (C.I.A., J.W., A.O.), University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; and the Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, Women's College Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto (R.S.P.).
Background: Apolipoprotein L1 gene () variants are risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) among Black Americans. Data are sparse on the genetic epidemiology of CKD and the clinical association of variants with CKD in West Africans, a major group in the Black population.
Methods: We conducted a case-control study involving participants from Ghana and Nigeria who had CKD stages 2 through 5, biopsy-proven glomerular disease, or no kidney disease.
Case 18-2024: A 64-Year-Old Woman with the Worst Headache of Her Life.
N Engl J Med
June 2024
From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (J.A.E.), and the Departments of Neurology (A.B.S.) and Radiology (J.M.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.