Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD.

Chi-Yuan Hsu¹, Wei Yang¹, Rishi V Parikh¹+19

• ¹From the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine (C.H., A.N.M., A.S.G.), and the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (A.S.G.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland (C.H., R.V.P., T.C.T., A.S.G.), the Department of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena (A.S.G.), and the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto (A.S.G.) - all in California; the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (W.Y., J.W., H.I.F.), the Division of Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension (D.L.C.), and the Department of Medicine (R.R.T.), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; the Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (A.H.A., J.H., K.T.M.) and the Tulane University Translational Science Institute (A.H.A., J.H., K.T.M.), New Orleans; the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Baltimore (T.K.C.), and the Division of Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (A.P.) - all in Maryland; the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit (M.J.M.); the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago (J.P.L.), and the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago (M.R.S.) - both in Chicago; the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson (T.S.); the Section of Nephrology, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston (S.S.W.); and the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (M.W.).