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"This work was supported by grant-in-aids 08770879, 09770843, 14571020, 22590909 and 25461245 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan and a grant from National Research Foundation/Japan Science and Technology Agency (NRF/JST) (Project Number: J110000349) and Strategic international research cooperative program (SICP). We are grateful to the study investigators of the Genomic Disease Outcome Consortium (G-DOC), which was organized as the Kanazawa Renal Disease Study Group on 1995 for presenting a part of the subjects of this study. We are also grateful to Miss Yoko Hayashida (employer/institution/affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, University of Fukui Faculty of Medical Sciences, Fukui, Japan) for technical and secretarial assistance."