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Preliminary evidence of FABP2 A54T polymorphism associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity in women from a German cohort.
Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme - 1 May 2006
Fisher E, Li Y, Burwinkel B, Kühr V, Hoffmann K, Möhlig M, Spranger J, Pfeiffer A, Boeing H, Schrezenmeir J, Döring F
Abstract excerpt
The T54 variant of the FABP2 gene has shown an association with the insulin resistance syndrome in some, but not all, studies. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the association between FABP2 A54T genotype and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is confounded by body mass index (BMI) and is different between the two genders. 192 incident cases of T2DM and 384 sex- and age-matched controls were taken from the EPIC-Potsdam...
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