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Coincident linkage of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and measures of cardiovascular disease in a genome scan of the diabetes heart study.
Diabetes - 1 Jul 2006
Bowden Donald W, Rudock Megan, Ziegler Julie, Lehtinen Allison B, Xu Jianzhao, Wagenknecht Lynne E, Herrington David, Rich Stephen S, Freedman Barry I, Carr J Jeffrey, Langefeld Carl D
Abstract excerpt
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in type 2 diabetes, but the relationship between CVD and type 2 diabetes is not well understood. The Diabetes Heart Study is a study of type 2 diabetes-enriched families extensively phenotyped for measures of CVD, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. A total of 977 Caucasian subjects from 358 pedigrees (575 type 2 diabetic relative...
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