Pamela J Hicks

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1 Association of trypanolytic ApoL1 variants with kidney disease in African Americans. Science 2010 16.00
2 Polymorphisms in the non-muscle myosin heavy chain 9 gene (MYH9) are strongly associated with end-stage renal disease historically attributed to hypertension in African Americans. Kidney Int 2009 3.58
3 JC polyoma virus interacts with APOL1 in African Americans with nondiabetic nephropathy. Kidney Int 2013 3.09
4 Non-muscle myosin heavy chain 9 gene MYH9 associations in African Americans with clinically diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated ESRD. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2009 2.88
5 Genetic and environmental determinants of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels in Hispanic and African Americans. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 2.87
6 Dense mapping of MYH9 localizes the strongest kidney disease associations to the region of introns 13 to 15. Hum Mol Genet 2010 2.51
7 Association analysis in african americans of European-derived type 2 diabetes single nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome association studies. Diabetes 2008 2.41
8 Polymorphisms in MYH9 are associated with diabetic nephropathy in European Americans. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011 2.26
9 A genome-wide association study for diabetic nephropathy genes in African Americans. Kidney Int 2010 1.98
10 Variants of the transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene are associated with type 2 diabetes in an African-American population enriched for nephropathy. Diabetes 2007 1.86
11 Polymorphisms in the nonmuscle myosin heavy chain 9 gene (MYH9) are associated with albuminuria in hypertensive African Americans: the HyperGEN study. Am J Nephrol 2009 1.80
12 A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One 2012 1.72
13 Chromogranin A polymorphisms are associated with hypertensive renal disease. J Am Soc Nephrol 2008 1.68
14 APOL1 Genotype and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes From Deceased African American Donors. Transplantation 2016 1.68
15 End-stage renal disease in African Americans with lupus nephritis is associated with APOL1. Arthritis Rheumatol 2014 1.62
16 Association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with blood pressure in predominantly 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficient Hispanic and African Americans. Am J Hypertens 2009 1.60
17 Association of APOL1 variants with mild kidney disease in the first-degree relatives of African American patients with non-diabetic end-stage renal disease. Kidney Int 2012 1.59
18 Informed conditioning on clinical covariates increases power in case-control association studies. PLoS Genet 2012 1.57
19 Differential effects of MYH9 and APOL1 risk variants on FRMD3 Association with Diabetic ESRD in African Americans. PLoS Genet 2011 1.57
20 Genome-wide association scan for survival on dialysis in African-Americans with type 2 diabetes. Am J Nephrol 2011 1.52
21 A leucine repeat in the carnosinase gene CNDP1 is associated with diabetic end-stage renal disease in European Americans. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2007 1.33
22 A genome scan for ESRD in black families enriched for nondiabetic nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 2004 1.30
23 A genome-wide scan for type 2 diabetes in African-American families reveals evidence for a locus on chromosome 6q. Diabetes 2004 1.26
24 Admixture mapping of coronary artery calcified plaque in African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 1.22
25 Gene-gene interactions in APOL1-associated nephropathy. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2013 1.21
26 Genetic association and gene-gene interaction analyses in African American dialysis patients with nondiabetic nephropathy. Am J Kidney Dis 2011 1.19
27 Identification of podocin (NPHS2) gene mutations in African Americans with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease. Kidney Int 2005 1.18
28 Apolipoprotein L1 nephropathy risk variants associate with HDL subfraction concentration in African Americans. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2011 1.18
29 The influence of carnosinase gene polymorphisms on diabetic nephropathy risk in African-Americans. Hum Genet 2009 1.11
30 A genome scan for all-cause end-stage renal disease in African Americans. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2005 1.08
31 Association of the FBXO11 gene with chronic otitis media with effusion and recurrent otitis media: the Minnesota COME/ROM Family Study. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2006 1.07
32 Coincident idiopathic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis collapsing variant and diabetic nephropathy in an African American homozygous for MYH9 risk variants. Hum Pathol 2010 1.05
33 Progression of chronic kidney disease: Adrenergic genetic influence on glomerular filtration rate decline in hypertensive nephrosclerosis. Am J Nephrol 2010 1.04
34 Is collapsing C1q nephropathy another MYH9-associated kidney disease? A case report. Am J Kidney Dis 2010 1.04
35 Candidate genes for non-diabetic ESRD in African Americans: a genome-wide association study using pooled DNA. Hum Genet 2010 1.01
36 Genome-wide association of BMI in African Americans. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2011 1.01
37 The acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase beta (ACACB) gene is associated with nephropathy in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010 0.92
38 Genetic analysis of diabetic nephropathy on chromosome 18 in African Americans: linkage analysis and dense SNP mapping. Hum Genet 2009 0.90
39 Association of polymorphisms in the klotho gene with severity of non-diabetic ESRD in African Americans. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010 0.87
40 Evaluation of genetic association and expression reduction of TRPC1 in the development of diabetic nephropathy. Am J Nephrol 2008 0.87
41 Association of adiponectin gene polymorphisms with type 2 diabetes in an African American population enriched for nephropathy. Diabetes 2008 0.87
42 Evaluation of a SNP map of 6q24-27 confirms diabetic nephropathy loci and identifies novel associations in type 2 diabetes patients with nephropathy from an African-American population. Hum Genet 2008 0.82
43 An ACACB variant implicated in diabetic nephropathy associates with body mass index and gene expression in obese subjects. PLoS One 2013 0.80
44 Relevance of the ACTN4 gene in African-Americans with non-diabetic end-stage renal disease. Am J Nephrol 2012 0.79
45 Association Analysis of the Reticulon 1 Gene in End-Stage Kidney Disease. Am J Nephrol 2015 0.77
46 Examination of Rare Variants in HNF4 α in European Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. J Diabetes Metab 2011 0.76
47 Re-Sequencing of the APOL1-APOL4 and MYH9 Gene Regions in African Americans Does Not Identify Additional Risks for CKD Progression. Am J Nephrol 2015 0.76
48 Analysis of a cardiovascular disease genetic risk score in the Diabetes Heart Study. Acta Diabetol 2015 0.75