Phenotypic and genome-wide studies on dicarbonyls: major associations to glomerular filtration rate and gamma-glutamyltransferase activity.

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"We thank all participants for their long-term commitment to the KORA and BiDirect studies, the staff of the studies for design, data collection, and management. The KORA study (https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/epi/cohort/kora) was initiated and financed by Helmholtz Munich which is funded by the 10.13039/501100002347German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF and by the State of Bavaria. Data collection in the KORA study is done in cooperation with the University Hospital of Augsburg. The BiDirect Study (https://www.medizin.uni-muenster.de/en/epi/research/projects/bidirect.html) is supported by grants of the German Ministry of Research and Education BMBF to the University of Muenster (01ER0816 and 01ER1506). Furthermore, this work was supported by grants from the 10.13039/100010447German Centre for Cardiovascular Research DZHK to MS (81Z0700109) and from the 10.13039/501100001659Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to TF and PPN. We also thank Christine Eichholz from the Bioanalytic Core facility (10.13039/501100004168University of Lübeck) for her support during sample preparation and extraction."