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HFE genetic variability, body iron stores, and the risk of type 2 diabetes in U.S. women.
Diabetes - 1 Dec 2005
Qi Lu, Meigs James, Manson JoAnn E, Ma Jing, Hunter David, Rifai Nader, Hu Frank B
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To determine whether the HFE gene variants H63D and C282Y are associated with body iron stores and the risk of type 2 diabetes, we conducted a nested case-control study of 714 incident cases of type 2 diabetes and 1,120 matching control subjects in a prospective cohort, the Nurses' Health Study....
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