Systolic blood pressure (BP) was positively correlated with mesangial expression of U-II (r = 0.418,  P = 0.042), while diastolic BP was correlated with endothelial U-II expression in MPGN (r = 0.469,  P = 0.021) [21]. Here, UTS2 is linked to primary membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.