Regarding other measures of kidney function, a variant rs1801239 in the CUBN gene was proposed as a predictor of UACR and microalbuminuria in a meta-analysis of 63,153 individuals of European ancestry (Böger et al., 2011), and another variant in the same gene, rs10795433, has been associated with UACR in 5,825 individuals of European ancestry with diabetes compared to 46,061 without diabetes (Teumer et al., 2016). The gene discussed is CUBN; the disease is diabetes mellitus.