APOL1 Status May Refine Long-Term Kidney Donor Risk
Black living kidney donors who carried high-risk apolipoprotein LI1 (APOL1) genotypes had a substantially increased risk for long-term kidney dysfunction than donors without these variants, according to a new study. Nearly two decades after nephrectomy, donors with these genotypes were more than twice as likely to have an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 45…
