This study classified the cause of ESRD into five categories: systemic lupus erythematosus, diabetes mellitus (DM), chronic interstitial nephritis, glomerulonephritis, and other factors, including gout, hypertension, aristolochic acid nephropathy, IgA, IgM, and nephritic cystic kidney pathologies. This evidence concerns the gene CD79A and Balkan nephropathy.