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The Effects Of Diabetes Self-Management Education Among African Americans, Nkeiruka Muonagolu, Joyce Knestrick, Karen Kesten Apr 2021

The Effects Of Diabetes Self-Management Education Among African Americans, Nkeiruka Muonagolu, Joyce Knestrick, Karen Kesten

GW Research Showcase 2021-2024

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How Complicated Can It Be? The Link Between Apol1 Risk Variants And Lipoprotein Heterogeneity In Kidney And Cardiovascular Diseases., Chien-An A Hu, Patricio E Ray Apr 2016

How Complicated Can It Be? The Link Between Apol1 Risk Variants And Lipoprotein Heterogeneity In Kidney And Cardiovascular Diseases., Chien-An A Hu, Patricio E Ray

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

The beginning of human apolipoprotein L1 study (gene: APOL1; protein: ApoL1) originated from the identification of circulating ApoL1 as an interacting protein of ApoA1 and a minor component of high-density lipoprotein subfraction 3 (HDL3) in 1997 [1]. In the past 18 years, ApoL1 has been investigated in the context of complex human diseases such as African sleeping sickness, schizophrenia, host innate immunity, cancer, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases, stroke and type 2 diabetes [2–10]. A major breakthrough, however, was the documentation of two haplotypes of APOL1, harboring three coding-sequence mutations as risk variants associated with non-diabetic …