About the Authors

Markus P. Schneider

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

markus.schneider@uk-erlangen.de

Affiliations Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Klinikum Nürnberg, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Nürnberg, Germany

Karl F. Hilgers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Matthias Schmid

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Silvia Hübner

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Jennifer Nadal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

David Seitz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Martin Busch

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Jena, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany

Hermann Haller

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Anna Köttgen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute for Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Florian Kronenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Seema Baid-Agrawal

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Georg Schlieper

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ulla Schultheiss

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute for Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Division of Nephrology, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center—University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Sitter

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Claudia Sommerer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Stephanie Titze

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Heike Meiselbach

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Christoph Wanner

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Kai-Uwe Eckardt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

for the GCKD Study Investigators

The current GCKD investigators are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.