Heritability of dietary traits that contribute to nephrolithiasis in a cohort of adult sibships.
CONCLUSIONS: Evidence from this relatively large cohort suggests a strong heritable component to dietary intakes of protein, sucrose and calcium that contributes to nephrolithiasis risk. Further efforts to understand the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors in kidney stone pathogenesis are warranted.
PMID: 25963767 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)
