The Gene You Have Never Heard Of Is Driving Kidney Failure in Black Communities
By: Richard Knight, Vice President & Co-Founder, APOL1 Action Alliance In 2010, researchers identified two variants of the APOL1 gene that create a three-to-five-times greater risk of kidney failure in people of African descent (Genovese et al., 2010). Sixteen years later, most patients who carry these variants are unaware. Neither…