In look-ups from external data, 2 missense variants in MUC5B were associated with DKD at the discovery stage of a whole-exome sequencing analysis (rs202127660/p.Asp682Gly P = 7.54 × 10−11 for DKD vs. CKD comparison, and rs1033142104/p.Val5715Gly P = 3.86 × 10−5 for DKD vs. healthy controls).20 This evidence concerns the gene MUC5B and diabetic kidney disease.