@article{6ff47c48670f45668d7542b09838b754,
title = "Circulating TGF-Β1 as a reliable biomarker for chronic kidney disease progression in the African-American population",
abstract = "Progressive renal fibrosis is common to all chronic kidney diseases (CKD). Suthanthiran and colleagues identified a positive association between transforming growth factor-Β1 and several risk factors for CKD progression in African Americans but not in whites. This study offers a possible explanation for the higher prevalence of end-stage renal disease in African Americans and highlights the need for a better therapeutic strategy for this population.",
author = "Lee, {Soo Bong} and Keizo Kanasaki and Raghu Kalluri",
note = "Funding Information: The work in the authors' laboratory is funded by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (DK55001, DK62987, DK13193, DK61688), the PKD Foundation, and the research fund of the Division of Matrix Biology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Soo Bong Lee is funded by Pusan National University and Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, Korea. We thank Sarah Flier for her critical reading and input on this manuscript.",
year = "2009",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1038/ki.2009.130",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "76",
pages = "10--12",
journal = "Kidney International",
issn = "0085-2538",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}