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Variants in hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha are modestly associated with type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians.
Diabetes - 1 Oct 2005
Muller Yunhua Li, Infante Aniello M, Hanson Robert L, Love-Gregory Latisha, Knowler William, Bogardus Clifton, Baier Leslie J
Abstract excerpt
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha (HNF4alpha) gene are associated with type 2 diabetes in Finns and Ashkenazi Jews. Previous studies in both populations have reported linkage to type 2 diabetes near the HNF4alpha locus on chromosome 20q12-13. To investigate whether HNF4alpha is a diabetes susceptibility gene in Pima Indians, a population with the highest reported...
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