The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) recently obtained initial results from the first genome-wide association scan for renal traits. The study of 70,987 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 1,010 FHS participants provides a list of SNPs showing the strongest associations with renal traits which need to be verified in independent study samples.
Department of Epidemiology and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology & Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. akottgen@jhsph.edu