By demonstrating cytokine-induced podocytopathy, our kidney micro-organoid model diverged from a kidney organoid model of APOL1-mediated kidney disease recently published by Liu et al. (40), who generated kidney organoids from CRISPR-edited iPSCs of a donor of non-African ancestry in which G0 APOL1 alleles were edited to G1 alleles but on a G0 genetic background. This evidence concerns the gene APOL1 and kidney disorder.