ELMO1 and diabetic kidney disease: In a study of advanced DKD, defined as the presence of persistent proteinuria or ESRD, 284 DKD patients with proteinuria and 536 patients with DKD-ESRD were analysed for association of 359,193 SNPs, 106 in ELMO1, versus 885 type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) controls [54, 55].