A GWAS in 1,000 diabetic African Americans with ESRD in comparison with 500 nondiabetic cases and 500 non‐nephropathy controls demonstrated that 16 SNPs in pooled DNA were associated with nondiabetic ESRD and 12 of these SNPs are in or near the MYH9 gene (Bostrom et al., 2010). Here, MYH9 is linked to kidney disorder.