Lijun Ma, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Nephrology, Internal Medicine (Winston-Salem)

Research Interests

Molecular Biology
Molecular Genetics
Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Kidney Disease
APOL1-Associated Nephropathy

Research

Publications

APOL1 Kidney-Risk Variants Induce Mitochondrial Fission. Ma L, Ainsworth HC, Snipes JA, Murea M, Choi YA, Langefeld CD, Parks JS, Bharadwaj MS, Chou JW, Hemal AK, Petrovic S, Craddock AL, Cheng D, Hawkins GA, Miller LD, Hicks PJ, Saleem MA, Divers J, Molina AJA, Freedman BI. . 2020 Jun; 5(6):891-904.
APOL1 Long-term Kidney Transplantation Outcomes Network (APOLLO): Design and Rationale. Freedman BI, Moxey-Mims MM, Alexander AA, Astor BC, Birdwell KA, Bowden DW, Bowen G, Bromberg J, Craven TE, Dadhania DM, Divers J, Doshi MD, Eidbo E, Fornoni A, Gautreaux MD, Gbadegesin RA, Gee PO, Guerra G, Hsu CY, Iltis AS, Jefferson N, Julian BA, Klassen DK, Koty PP, Langefeld CD, Lentine KL, Ma L, Mannon RB, Menon MC, Mohan S, Moore JB, Murphy B, Newell KA, Odim J, Ortigosa-Goggins M, Palmer ND, Park M, Parsa A, Pastan SO, Poggio ED, Rajapakse N, Reeves-Daniel AM, Rosas SE, Russell LP, Sawinski D, Smith SC, Spainhour M, Stratta RJ, Weir MR, Reboussin DM, Kimmel PL, Brennan DC. Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Mar; 5(3):278-288.
APOL1 Nephropathy Risk Variant Associations with Diseases beyond the Kidney: APOL1 and Sepsis. Ma L, Freedman BI. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 12; 14(12):1684-1686.
APOL1 and Mortality in Patients on Dialysis. Murea M, Ma L, Freedman BI. Cardiorenal Med. 2019; 9(4):261-264.
Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci for type 2 diabetes-attributed end-stage kidney disease in African Americans. Guan M, Keaton JM, Dimitrov L, Hicks PJ, Xu J, Palmer ND, Ma L, Das SK, Chen YI, Coresh J, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Kramer H, Langefeld CD, Mychaleckyj JC, Parekh RS, Post WS, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Sedor JR, Thornley-Brown D, Tin A, Wilson JG, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Ng MCY. Hum Genomics. 2019 05; 13(1):21.

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Lijun Ma, MD, PhD

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