MicroRNAs in the miR-17 and miR-15 families are downregulated in chronic kidney disease with hypertension.

MicroRNAs in the miR-17 and miR-15 families are downregulated in chronic kidney disease with hypertension.

<h4>Background</h4>In older adults (aged 70-74 years), African-Americans have 4-fold higher risk of developing hypertension-attributed end-stage renal disease (ESRD) than European-Americans. A hypothesized mechanism linking hypertension and progressive chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the...

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Main Authors: Priyanka Nandakumar, Adrienne Tin, Megan L Grove, Jianzhong Ma, Eric Boerwinkle, Josef Coresh, Aravinda Chakravarti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176734&type=printable

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