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Heritability of hemostasis phenotypes and their correlation with type 2 diabetes status in Mexican Americans.
Human biology - 1 Feb 2005
Warren Diane M, Soria José Manuel, Souto Juan Carlos, Comuzzie Anthony, Fontcuberta Jordi, Blangero John, MacCluer Jean W, Almasy Laura
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Hypercoagulation often occurs in type 2 diabetes, suggesting pleiotropy of the genes that influence disease liability and hemostasis-related phenotypes. To better understand the relationship between hemostasis and diabetes, we first used maximum-likelihood methods to estimate the relative contribution of additive genetic, measured environmental, and shared household effects to the normal variance of 16...
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