Type IV collagen and diabetic kidney disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology, Published online: 14 November 2019; doi:10.1038/s41581-019-0229-1A new genome-wide association study of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus reveals novel loci that are associated with the development of diabetic kidney disease. The most significant of these loci encodes the α3 chain of type IV collagen, which is an important component of the glomerular basement membrane.
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