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Demetz E, Tymoszuk P, Hilbe R, Volani C, Haschka D, Heim C, Auer K, Lener D, Zeiger LB, Pfeifhofer-Obermair C, Boehm A, Obermair GJ, Ablinger C, Coassin S, Lamina C, Kager J, Petzer V, Asshoff M, Schroll A, Nairz M, Dichtl S, Seifert M, von Raffay L, Fischer C, Barros-Pinkelnig M, Brigo N, Valente de Souza L, Sopper S, Hirsch J, Graber M, Gollmann-Tepeköylü C, Holfeld J, Halper J, Macheiner S, Gostner J, Vogel GF, Pechlaner R, Moser P, Imboden M, Marques-Vidal P, Probst-Hensch NM, Meiselbach H, Strauch K, Peters A, Paulweber B, Willeit J, Kiechl S, Kronenberg F, Theurl I, Tancevski I, Weiss G.  The haemochromatosis gene Hfe and Kupffer cells control LDL cholesterol homeostasis and impact on atherosclerosis development  Eur Heart J. 2020 Oct 21;41(40):3949-3959. Pfau A, Wytopil M, Chauhan K, Reichel M, Coca SG, Aronson PS, Eckardt KU, Knauf F.; Assessment of Plasma Oxalate Concentration in Patients With CKD.  Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Sep 2;5(11):2013-2020.  
Fazzini F, Lamina C, Raschenberger J, Schultheiss UT, Kotsis F, Schönherr S, Weissensteiner H, Forer L, Steinbrenner I, Meiselbach H, Bärthlein B, Wanner C, Eckardt KU, Köttgen A, Kronenberg F; GCKD Investigators. Results from the Gemeran Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study support association of relative telomere length with mortality in a large cohort of patients with moderate chronic kidney disease.  Kidney Int.  2020 Aug;98(2):488-497 Di Maio S, Grüneis R, Streiter G, Lamina C, Maglione M, Schoenherr S, Öfner D, Thorand B, Peters A, Eckardt KU, Köttgen A, Kronenberg F, Coassin S.  Investigation of a nonsense mutation located in the complex KIV-2 copy number variation region of apolipoprotein(a) in 10,910 individuals.  Genome Med. 2020 Aug 21;12(1):74. Peggy Sekula, Adrienne Tin, Ulla T. Schultheiss, Seema Baid-Agrawal, Robert P. Mohney, Inga Steinbrenner, Bing Yu, Shengyuan Luo, Eric Boerwinkle, Kai-Uwe Eckardt , Josef Coresh, Morgan E. Grams, Anna Kӧttgen. Urine 6-Bromotryptophan: Associations with Genetic Variants and Incident End-Stage Kidney Disease  Sci Rep. 2020;  10: 10018. Published online 2020 Jun 22.  
Ulla T Schultheiss, Inga Steinbrenner, Matthias Nauck, Markus P Schneider, Fruzsina Kotsis, Seema Baid-Agrawal, Elke Schaeffner, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Anna Köttgen, Peggy Sekula, GCKD investigators. Thyroid function, renal events and mortality in CKD patients: the German Chronic Kidney Disease Study.  Clinical Kidney Journal. 2020 Jun 4 
Steubl D, Schneider MP, Meiselbach H, Nadal J, Schmid MC, Saritas T, Krane V, Sommerer C, Baid-Agrawal S, Voelkl J, Kotsis F, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Scherberich JE; GCKD Study Investigators. Association of Serum Uromodulin with Death, Cardiovascular Events, and Kidney Failure in CKD.  Clin J Am Soc Nephrol . 2020 Apr 14 
Alesutan I, Luong TTD, Schelski N, Masyout J, Hille S, Schneider MP, Graham D, Zickler D, Verheyen N, Estepa M, Pasch A, Maerz W, Tomaschitz A, Pilz S, Frey N, Lang F, Delles C, Müller OJ, Pieske B, Eckardt KU, Scherberich J, Voelkl J. Circulating uromodulin inhibits vascular calcification by interfering with pro-inflammatory cytokine signaling.  Cardiovasc Res . 2020 Apr 3. 
Mirna M, Topf A, Wernly B, Rezar R, Paar V, Jung C, Salmhofer H, Kopp K, Hoppe UC, Schulze PC, Kretzschmar D, Schneider MP, Schultheiss UT, Sommerer C, Paul K, Wolf G, Lichtenauer M, Busch M. Novel Biomarkers in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: An Analysis of Patients Enrolled in the GCKD-Study.  J Clin Med . 2020 Mar 24 
Schlosser P, Li Y, Sekula P, Raffler J, Grundner-Culemann F, Pietzner M, Cheng Y, Wuttke M, Steinbrenner I, Schultheiss UT, Kotsis F, Kacprowski T, Forer L, Hausknecht B, Ekici AB, Nauck M, Völker U; GCKD Investigators, Walz G, Oefner PJ, Kronenberg F, Mohney RP, Köttgen M, Suhre K, Eckardt KU, Kastenmüller G, Köttgen A. Genetic studies of urinary metabolites illuminate mechanisms of detoxification and excretion in humans.  Nat Genet . 2020 Jan 20.