Genetics of osteopontin in patients with chronic kidney disease: The German Chronic Kidney Disease study

• Yurong Cheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Yong Li,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2651-8791

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• Nora Scherer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7057-7663

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• Franziska Grundner-Culemann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9649-281X

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• Terho Lehtimäki,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland

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• Binisha H. Mishra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5605-5196

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• Olli T. Raitakari,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku Finland

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• Matthias Nauck,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6678-7964

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• Kai-Uwe Eckardt,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité, University-Medicine, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-0920

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• Peggy Sekula ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peggy Sekula, Ulla T. Schultheiss

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2263-447X

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• Ulla T. Schultheiss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Peggy Sekula, Ulla T. Schultheiss

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ulla.schultheiss@uniklinik-freiburg.de

  Affiliations Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Medicine IV, Nephrology and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-5310

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• on behalf of the GCKD investigators

  ¶a list of investigators participating in the GCKD Study can be found in S1 Information

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