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E-selectin genotypes and risk of type 2 diabetes in women.
Obesity research - 1 Mar 2005
Meigs James B, Hu Frank B, Perhanidis Jessica S, Hunter David, Rifai Nader, Manson Joann E
Abstract excerpt
Endothelial dysfunction increases risk for type 2 diabetes. We examined whether variation in the gene for E-selectin (SELE), a biomarker of endothelial dysfunction, was associated with levels of E-selectin or diabetes quantitative traits (including fasting levels of insulin and hemoglobin A(1c)) in 719 nondiabetic participants of the Nurses' Health Study or with risk of diabetes in 602 incident (over 10 years of...
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