Over 50% of Black people with end-stage kidney disease had high-risk variants of a gene called APOL1 in a recent UK study. These genes are most commonly found in people of West African and Caribbean descent, which may partly explain why people of Black ethnicity are three times more likely to develop end-stage kidney disease than White people. While these high-risk genes do not definitely mean that people who have them will develop end-stage kidney disease, it suggests that carriers of these genes need careful monitoring of their kidney function and good control of their HIV to reduce their risks of kidney damage.
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