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Are variants in the CAPN10 gene related to risk of type 2 diabetes? A quantitative assessment of population and family-based association studies.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2004
Song Yiqing, Niu Tianhua, Manson JoAnn E, Kwiatkowski David J, Liu Simin
Abstract excerpt
The calpain-10 gene (CAPN10) on chromosome 2q37.3 was the first candidate gene for type 2 diabetes (T2D) identified through a genomewide screen and positional cloning. One polymorphism (UCSNP-43: G-->A) and a specific haplotype combination defined by three polymorphisms (UCSNP-43, -19, and -63) w...
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